Stories from Shakespeare

by Geraldine Mc Caughrean (Author), Antony Maitland (Illustrator)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.67

  These retellings of the Shakespeare plays children are most likely to encounter capture the atmosphere, drama and humour of the originals while at the same time making them accessible and highly readable. Included are A Midsummer Night's Dream , Romeo and Juliet , Henry the Fifth , Julius Caesar , Hamlet , Twelfth Night , Othello , King Lear , Macbeth , and The Tempest .

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.38

  Geraldine McCaughrean has won many awards for her brilliant versions of classic texts. Here she retells the ten Shakespeare plays children are most likely to come across: Romeo and Juliet, Henry the Fifth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and The Tempest. Written in stirring, colourful prose, this book makes a terrific introduction to Shakespeare and makes complex plots easy to follow. The text is punctuated with well-known quotations that give a taste of the real thing, and each play opens with a cast list explaining just who the characters are.

• New

  Hardcover
  1999

  $18.87

  These stories are intended as a way of introducing Shakespeare to lower secondary students. The language provides a flavour of the plays yet remains accesssible to a wide ability range.