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Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare! (Paperback)

by Marcia Williams (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 40 pages
  • Publisher: Walker Books Ltd; New edition edition (8 Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0744582377
  • ISBN-13: 978-0744582376
  • Product Dimensions: 31.5 x 25 x 0.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 277,119 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Marcia Williams performs a brilliant encore...clear explanations, witty asides and dramatic devices... This is the perfect present for anyone who has ever been baffled by the Bard." Junior Education "Detailed artwork, terrific design, great stories - what more could a reluctant reader want?" The Daily Telegraph on Mr. William Shakespeare's Plays


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The Globe Theatre is delighted to announce a new season of Mr. William Shakespeare's plays! Prithee take your place once more for a performance of seven of the Bard's finest tales. See As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, Twelfth Night, King Lear. The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing - each brilliantly presented in dramatic comic-strip form, including Mr Shakespeare's own dialogue and the riotous remarks of the audience. Bravo!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another seven Shakespeare plays from Marcia Williams, 8 Feb 2003
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“Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare” by Marcia Williams is her 2000 follow up to her 1998 volume, “Tales from Shakespeare.” Both books look at seven plays by the bard. The first volume did “Hamlet,” “MacBeth,” “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Romeo & Juliet,” “The Winter’s Tale,” “Julius Caesar,” and “The Tempest.” This book covers “Much Ado About Nothing,” “As You Like It,” “Richard III,” “Antony & Cleopatra,” “Twelfth Night,” “King Lear,” and “The Merchant of Venice.”

The conceit of these volumes is that Shakespeare’s plays are being performed at the Globe, a circular wooden theater on the banks of the Thames River in England. Theatergoers would pay penny and stand in the open courtyard around the stage and watch the play. Such people were known as the groundlings and they got rather rowdy, actually throwing things at the actors. If you paid another penny you could sit in one of the roofed galleries, protected from both the elements and the groundlings.

Williams presents each play in dramatic comic strip form providing three parts to each performance. First, there are the words that Shakespeare actually wrote being spoken by the characters. Second, the plot of the play is told underneath the pictures. Third, around the stand the spectators watch and other a wide variety of comments. Keep your eyes out for Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, the Master of Revels, and a guy who only likes the gloomy pages.

Both of these volumes provide a spirited presentation of these Shakespeare plays, giving young readers not only a sense of the story but the way they were originally performed. Of course, the fun comments strike the mark better on the comedies than the dramas (the latter tend to be colored more gloomily), but there is no mistaking the enthusiasm Williams brings to the presentation of these plays. This is an excellent way of introducing young students to Shakespeare’s works and hopefully it will whet their appetite for reading more detailed juvenile versions and eventually the original plays themselves.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Bravo, 9 May 2009
By L. Brooker - See all my reviews
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As usual Marcia Williams has taken Shakespeare and turned it into child friendly format. I was a little disappointed that the web page didn't tell me which plays were in this version, so therefore I haven't been able to use it as I wanted Romeo and Juliet - which is not in this book.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Imagination runs riot, 8 May 2008
By Humpty Dumpty (Wall St, Upton Snodsbury) - See all my reviews
The format of this is a little different from most of of Marcia Wiliams' treatment of famous tales. Though done with all the author's accustomed energy and verve, the usual format of narrative strip cartoons supplemented by the characters' speech bubbles has a third dimension provided by comments from the "audience" at the Globe Theatre, London.

This keeps the young reader on his/her toes and provides a super intro to Shakespeare. The illustrations are interesting in that the author has chosen a distinctive colour palette for each play - thus As You Like It is done predominantly in oranges and blues, Antony and Cleo in orange and turquoise, Twelfth Night in pink, green and plum, The Merchant of Venice in cherry and grey etc.

No child could fail to be stimulated by these tales, and could not want to pursue them at at deeper level when older.
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