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The play's the thing - a perfect Python-Esque Paean to all things bardalicious! The big brains behind the world's greatest ever pass-the-hat act are back with the perfect pocket-sized companion to the life, times, work and general brilliance of Mr. William Shakespeare. ""Because so few historical facts exist, biographers must drink deeply of Shakespeare's 'muse of fire' and rise to the 'brightest heaven of invention'. In other words, they make stuff up."" Thus begins (practically) this all-singing, all-dancing, very reduced and utterly brilliant guide to the world according to Shakespeare - not to mention the world according to people who claim to know what the world according to Shakespeare was and in fact might not have been at all...The point is, Shakespeare is a mystery wrapped in an enigma hidden inside a wotsit and, as such, very few people know much about him other than whether they (think) they like his plays. Or hate them. Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, on the other hand, the brainboxes behind London's longest-ever running comedy, know practically everything there is to know, including what there isn't, and they've wrapped it all up in an insanely fascinating, hilariously informative roustabout of facts, speculations, quizzes, lists, definitions and essential vocabulary that fits easily in the pocket. Oh, and all the plays are in there too. Yep, all of them.

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Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor are founding members of The Reduced Shakespeare Company, one of the most successful comic acts ever to appear in the UK. Their uniquely irreverent potted Shakespeare has amused an enlightened millions over a 10-year run at the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly.

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