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Garfield, Leon.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- Juvenile literature.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stories, plots, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
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Garfield, Leon.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- Juvenile literature.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stories, plots, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
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Leon Garfield's Shakespeare stories / illustrated by Michael Foreman.
by
Garfield, Leon.
The New York Review of Books, c2015.
Call #:
822
.33
Hga
Subjects
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations -- Juvenile literature.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stories, plots, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Series
New York Review children's collection.
ISBN:
9781590179314
1590179315
Alternate title:
Shakespeare stories
Description:
564 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Previously published in two volumes as Shakespeare Stories (1985) and Shakespeare Stories II (1994) by Victor Gollancz Limited, Great Britain.
Contents:
Twelfth night -- King Lear -- The tempest -- The merchant of Venice -- The taming of the shrew -- King Richard the Second -- King Henry IV, part one -- Hamlet -- Romeo and Juliet -- Othello -- A midsummer night's dream -- Macbeth -- Much ado about nothing -- Julius Caesar -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Measure for measure -- As you like it -- Cymbeline -- King Richard the Third -- The comedy of errors -- The winter's tale.
Summary:
How to introduce kids to Shakespeare--not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of his language and the depth of his characters. That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, a wonderful children's book writer, undertook to meet in his monumental and delightful Shakespeare Stories. Here are twenty-one of the Bard's plays, presented in what is not a series of dry retellings, but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories, in a way that remains true to the essential spirit of the original versions. Garfield has captured all the richness of character, plot, mood, and setting in Shakespeare's works without resorting to simplification. Indeed, he deliberately retains much of Shakespeare's language, skillfully weaving it into his own prose so that the reader is introduced to the flavor of the verse, as well as to the incidents of plot and the spectacle of the drama. Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories is an essential distillation--a celebration and a reminder of Shakespeare's genius as a poet and dramatist.
Genre:
Children's stories, English.
Other authors:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Foreman, Michael, 1938-
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822.33 Hga
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