John Crace, creator of the Guardian's 'Digested Read' column, parodies 'the Scottish play' in a brilliantly funny reduced form, with Professor John Sutherland providing notes.
John Crace (Author)
John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author
of the 'Digested Read' columns and he writes regularly for Grazia.
He is the author of I Never Promised you a Rose Garden- A short
guide to modern politics, the coalition and the general election
and also Baby Alarm- A Neurotic's Guide to Fatherhood, Vertigo- One
Football Fan's Fear of Success , Harry's Games- Inside the Mind of
Harry Redknapp, Brideshead Abbreviated- the Digested Read of the
Twentieth Century and The Digested Twenty-first Century. He lives
in London.
John Sutherland (Author)
John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern
English Literature at University College London and previously
taught at the California Institute of Technology. He writes
regularly for the Guardian, The Times and the New York Times, and
is the author of many books including Curiosities of Literature, Is
Henry V a War Criminal? (with Cedric Watts), biographies of Walter
Scott, Stephen Spender and the Victorian elephant Jumbo, and The
Boy Who Loved Books, a memoir.
What finer way to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death
than a series of witty modern reworkings...Shakespeare reduced to
100 pages of pithy pentameter with smart side notes.
*Evening Standard*
Witty, fresh takes on Shakespeare
*The Times*
Hilarious – and all the better for those of us who know our
Shakespeare back to front.
*Harriet Walter*
Hilarious – and all the better for those of us who know our
Shakespeare back to front.
*Harriet Walter*
Shrewd interpretations of the Bard; funny footnotes too.
*Hugh Bonneville*
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