A very different look at some of Shakespeare's stories told from a minor character's point of view. A humorous look at Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Henry the Fifth and four other plays.
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inklings. He won a Mythopoeic Award for his book The Inklings in 1982.