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The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travels
Richard Paul Roe
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Paperback, 309 pages; 2011
$19.99
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There is a secret Italy hidden in the plays of Shakespeare. It is an ingeniously described Italy that has neither been recognized, nor even suspected--not in four hundred years--save by a curious few.
Richard Paul Roe spent twenty years traveling Italy, studying the ten Shakespearean plays set in that country and comparing descriptions within them to the actual sites and geography. What he discovered was astonishing: Exact locations of nearly every scene in those dramas could be found, and details depicting them were so precise that the author must have spent time in Italy (though it has been widely accepted that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon never left England). This provocative and well-illustrated chronicle of Roe's literary quest will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, history buffs, Italophiles, and fans of unusual travelogues.
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