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Summary: "Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
Review: This is a great little book. It has some of Shakespeare's greatest words on love from some of his greatest plays and sonnets. The entire book is beautifully illustrated and provides a strong depiction of the quotes. If you're a fan of Shakespeare then you must have this book.
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Summary: "Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
Review: This is a great little book. It has some of Shakespeare's greatest words on love from some of his greatest plays and sonnets. The entire book is beautifully illustrated and provides a strong depiction of the quotes. If you're a fan of Shakespeare then you must have this book.
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Summary: Pretty pictures, thin content
Review: William Shakespeare wrote a lot about love; many of his stories have a noteworthy love story, be the consequences sad or happy. (Not to mention his many sonnets) But this rather thin, fluffy book of quotations about love won't really satisfy the Shakespeare buffs out there.It covers romantic love -- in sonnets and quotations -- love in song ("A hey and a ho and a hey nonino"), humorous love (like the kiss in "Taming of the Shrew" that was heard all over the church), sonnets that make comparisons to summer's days, and so forth. The problem with the text is that there isn't much of it. It's a short book to begin with, and there's only one quotation (often an extremely short one) for every two pages. I came out of it wondering why, given the wealth of material, the editor couldn't scrounge a few more slightly more insightful quotes. The pictures are quite pretty, mostly Pre-Raphaelite stuff. Some is based on Shakespeare's work, some isn't; my main problem with them was that they were too small to study carefully. Basically, this book is pretty much for the lovestruck youths who express their feelings through Shakespeare's quotations. Try buying a book of artwork and the love-quote book edited by Frank Finamore.
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