title: Fear Not Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Comprehensive Introduction
author: Jenny Farrell
description: Jenny Farrell was born in Berlin, German Democratic Republic (GDR). She grew up in a bilingual German-Scottish-Irish family, where from an early age she was familiar with the literature and music of these traditions. She graduated from Humboldt University Berlin in 1980, with a BA and a B Ed in English and German. The same university awarded her a PhD in English Romantic Literature in 1985. She has lived in Ireland since 1985, working as a lecturer in GMIT. Her main fields of interest are Irish and English poetry and the work of William Shakespeare.
zlib_text: **C.J. SKUSE** is the author of the YA novels PRETTY BAD THINGS, ROCKOHOLIC
  and DEAD ROMANTIC. She was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England. She has
  First Class degrees in Creative Writing and Writing for Children and, aside
  from writing novels, lectures in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University
  where she is planning to do her PhD. C.J’s fifth novel THE DEVIANTS will be
  published by Mira Ink in 2016.
  
  [www.miraink.co.uk](http://www.miraink.co.uk)
  
  For Jamie, he is my brother
  
  I said there is no other
  
   _‘Hell is empty. All the devils are here.’_
  
   _The Tempest,_
  
  William Shakespeare
  
   **Acknowledgements**
  
  Jenny Savill at Andrew Nurnberg Agency for your belief when I needed it most.
  
  Anna Baggaley, Sarah Reader and everyone at Mira Ink for your ceaseless
  support, editorial advice and general love for my little Monster
  
  All my family, friends and early readers—my sister Penny Skuse, Matthew Snead,
  Laura Myers, Di Toft, Rachel Leyshon and Barry Cunningham. Thank you for all
  yo