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So I found a hardcover copy of Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention-Impaired Reader's Guide to the World's Best Playwright at a warehouse sale recently. Got it because it's from the guys behind the Reduced Shakespeare Company. There's another book that I've been wanting to get, but it can always wait.
It's meant for people who watch Shakespeare productions but don't have the time or attention span to study the man's works in great detail or scholarship, which works fine for me. They literally just give you the main gist of his works, interspersed with stuff about his life and the usual conspiracy theories about who actually wrote them, etc. You'll need to sort fact from funny as you read this, so it's not for the impressionable or the gullible.
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