- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic (20 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0439963613
- ISBN-13: 978-0439963619
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,091,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ten of Shakespeare's best-known stories are retold ... with a twist! Hamlet - ten bodies litter the stage. Horatio is number one suspect ... but is it an open-and-shut case? A Midsummer Night's Dream - strange things are happening in the woods. Puck mucks things up and Bottom makes an ass of himself. Puck reveals all. King Lear - eye-gourging, stabbing and poisoning ... act out the play yourself - it's a laugh a minute! You've never read them like this before ...
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This play was written around 1595 when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Sir Walter Raleigh was off to what is now Guyana in South America on an expedition to find the legendary city of gold - El Dorado! Read the first page
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of my favorite books. I am a Shakespeare nut and I read this at a friend's when about to go see Julius Caesar. I loved the book and when I got home I ordered it. It has ten wonderfully funny stories about Shakespeare, as well as ten wonderfully funny Shakespeare summaries. A great book for all ages.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From the popular TOP TEN series of books `SHAKESPEARE STORIES`.
`William Shakespeare wrote plays. He didn`t write them just for people to read in school or for teachers to use for impossible exam questions Let`s get this straight:-
Shakespeare wrote plays so people would be entertained. He wanted people to have FUN!
And when Elizabeth I and King James I (King James VI of Scotland) were ruling Britain, people did have fun watching performances of Shakespeare`s plays. The plays were, and still are, every bit as entertaining as today`s TV soap operas.
They have death and destruction, jokes and jests, weird witchcraft, rogues and royals, hatred and heartache, blood and butchery...........
So here they are. The ten plays selected here are the ones that have been performed most over the past one hundred and fifty years:-'
192 pages, split into chapters:-
Introduction
STORY 10 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
STORY 9 - KING LEAR
STORY 8 - TWELFTH NIGHT
STORY 7 - THE TEMPEST
STORY 6 - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
STORY 5 - ROMEO AND JULIET
STORY 4 - JULIUS CAESAR
STORY 3 - THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
STORY 2 - MACBETH
STORY 1 - HAMLET
With 10 individual `Top Facts' sections, INCLUDING A QUICK QUIZ, too.
Completed with an epilogue.
Written in a variety of fonts with humorous black and white cartoon illustrations throughout, this is a brilliant book for swatting up on Shakespeare!
`William Shakespeare wrote plays. He didn`t write them just for people to read in school or for teachers to use for impossible exam questions Let`s get this straight:-
Shakespeare wrote plays so people would be entertained. He wanted people to have FUN!
And when Elizabeth I and King James I (King James VI of Scotland) were ruling Britain, people did have fun watching performances of Shakespeare`s plays. The plays were, and still are, every bit as entertaining as today`s TV soap operas.
They have death and destruction, jokes and jests, weird witchcraft, rogues and royals, hatred and heartache, blood and butchery...........
So here they are. The ten plays selected here are the ones that have been performed most over the past one hundred and fifty years:-'
192 pages, split into chapters:-
Introduction
STORY 10 - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
STORY 9 - KING LEAR
STORY 8 - TWELFTH NIGHT
STORY 7 - THE TEMPEST
STORY 6 - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
STORY 5 - ROMEO AND JULIET
STORY 4 - JULIUS CAESAR
STORY 3 - THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
STORY 2 - MACBETH
STORY 1 - HAMLET
With 10 individual `Top Facts' sections, INCLUDING A QUICK QUIZ, too.
Completed with an epilogue.
Written in a variety of fonts with humorous black and white cartoon illustrations throughout, this is a brilliant book for swatting up on Shakespeare!
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
A CHANGE OF HEART
16 May 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
MY DAD IS REALLY INTO SHAKESPEARE. HES ALWAYS TRYING TO GET ME TO SEE THE BEAUTY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGES AND THE TAPESTRY OF WORDS AND ALL THAT JUNK. WHEN I TELL HIM TO STOP NAGGING ME, HE STARTS QUOTING HAMLET AND MCBETH UNTILL I JUST LEAVE. THAT WAS BEFORE I READ 'SHAKESPEARE STORIES'. THIS BOOK PUT SHAKESPEARE IN UNDERSTANDABLE LANGUAGE, SO I COULD SEE WHAT MY DAD MEANT ABOUT THE 'BEAUTY OF THE STORY'. OK, IM GETTING THERE. BUT ANYWAY, AFTER READING THE BOOK, I TOOK A SHAKESPEARE CLASS AT SCHOOL. WE DID THE PLAY OF 'ROMEO AND JULIET' AND I GOT JULIET! NOW I REALLY LIKE SHAKESPEARE!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Middle School Success
8 Jan 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book worked wonderfully with my eighth grade students. It provides simplistic plot summaries and Shakespearean background notes. They really enjoyed the fact that the summaries were in everyday language. It helped us transition into the "harder" versions. Great for middle school!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Shakespeare.......in English
25 May 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book was very good. It gave life to Shakespeare. While I appreaciate the beauty of his words, sometimes Shakespeare is a little......stuffy. But not in this book! It tells Shakespeare in a language I can understand. Even my 7-year-old brother was reading it!!! This is definatly a good book for anyone to enjoy.
- MKL
- MKL
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