Mr. Fallon explores Shakespeare's familiarity in five sections dealing with language, theme, staging, character, and plot, each abundantly illustrated with episodes and quotations from the plays.

Fallon argues that Paradise Lost is not a political testament, however, and to read its lines as a critique of allegiances and ideologies outside the work is limit the range and scope of critical inquiry and to miss the larger purpose of ...

Designed to enhance the playgoer's enjoyment of a performance, but it also makes for enlightening reading after the show.

Presents scene-by-scene plot summaries for Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Fallon examines the roles that warfare and the archetype of the soldier assume in the life and work of John Milton.

In this book Robert fallon examines the themes in Shakespeare's plays, the revelations about human nature that give them substance and weight and such an enduring quality.