Shakespeare on Toast » Independent http://www.shakespeareontoast.com Published by Icon Books in September 2008 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:46:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 The Independent http://www.shakespeareontoast.com http://www.shakespeareontoast.com#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:10:40 +0000 Ben http://www.shakespeareontoast.com/?p=108 Toast and I featured in Katy Guest’s The Week in Books in yesterday’s Independent:

Crystal tries his damnedest as an actor, scholar and Shakespeare’s biggest fan to demystify the Bard for doubting 21st-century theatre-phobics.

Click here for the article in full…

]]> http://www.shakespeareontoast.com/feed/ 0 “Humourous, unpretentious and fascinating” — The Independent On Sunday http://www.shakespeareontoast.com http://www.shakespeareontoast.com#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:55:10 +0000 Ben http://www.shakespeareontoast.com/?p=72 Last weekend’s Independent on Sunday chose Toast as one of their Christmas Stocking Fillers, going as far as to say:

Ben Crystal, a professional actor, wrote the zippy, anecdotal Shakespeare on Toast (Icon £11.99) to give the reader “the ability to go to any Shakespeare play and feel comfortable reading or watching it”.

He’s succeeded. It’s humourous, unpretentious and fascinating.

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