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Saffron Stocker  \nEDITOR Satu Fox  \nUS EDITORS  \nChristy Lusiak, Margaret Parrish  \nMANAGING EDITOR Stephanie Farrow  \nMANAGING ART EDITOR Lee Griffiths  \nART DIRECTOR Phil Ormerod  \nPUBLISHER Liz Wheeler  \nPUBLISHING DIRECTOR Jonathan Metcalf  \nJACKET EDITOR Claire Gell  \nJACKET DESIGNER Laura Brim  \nJACKET DESIGN DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Sophia MTT  \nPRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCER Luca Frassinetti  \nPRODUCER  \nMandy Inness  \nILLUSTRATIONS James Graham, Ben Ruocco  \nproduced for DK by  \nTALLTREE LTD.  \nEDITORS Rob Colson, Scarlett O’Hara, David John  \nDESIGN AND ART DIRECTION Ben Ruocco  \nDK DELHI  \nEDITORIAL TEAM Priyanka Kharbanda, Rupa Rao  \nART EDITOR Heena Sharma  \nDTP DESIGNER Bimlesh Tiwari  \nMANAGING EDITOR Kingshuk Ghoshal  \nMANAGING ART EDITOR Govind Mittal  \nPRE-PRODUCTION MANAGER Balwant Singh  \nMANAGING JACKETS EDITOR Saloni Talwar  \nJACKET DESIGNERS Suhita Dharamjit, Dhirendra Singh  \noriginal styling by  \nSTUDIO 8  \nFirst American Edition, 2015 Published in the United States by DK Publishing  \n345 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014  \n15 16 17 18 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 001—258603—Mar/2015  \nCopyright © 2015  \nDorling Kindersley Limited All rights reserved.  \nWithout limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.  \nPublished in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited.  \nA catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.  \nISBN: 978-1-4654-2987-2  \nDK books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, or educational use. For details, contact DK Publishing Special Markets, 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York, 10014, or [SpecialSales@dk.com](SpecialSales@dk.com)  \nPrinted and bound in China by Leo Paper Products Ltd.  \n[www.dk.com](www.dk.com)  \nCONTRIBUTORS  \nSTANLEY WELLS, CONSULTANT EDITOR  \n\n| Stanley Wells, CBE, FRSL, Honorary President of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, is Professor Emeritus of Shakespeare Studies of the University of Birmingham, Honorary Governor Emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College Oxford. He is general editor of the Oxford and Penguin editions of Shakespeare and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. His books include Shakespeare for All Time, Shakespeare, Sex, and Love, and Great Shakespeare Actors.\u003Cbr>ANJNA CHOUHAN |\n| --- |\n| Anjna Chouhan is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. 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