Six Shakespeare Stories
Author: Leon Garfield
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780435124243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most famous of Shakespeare's plays retold as short and easy-to-read stories.
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Brightest Heaven of Invention
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1885767234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how politics is shaped by the clash of men with various colorings of self-interest and idealism, how violence breeds violence, how fragile human beings create masks and disguises for protection, how schemers do the same for advancement, how love can grow out of hate and hate out of love. Dare anyone say that these insights are irrelevant to living in the real world? For many in an older generation, the Bible and the Collected Shakespeare were the two indispensable books, and thus their sense of life and history was shaped by the best and best-told stories. And they were the wiser for it. Literature abstracts from the complex events of life (just as we all do in everyday life) and can reveal patterns that are like the patterns of events in the real world. Studying literature can give us sensitivity to those patterns. This sensitivity to the rhythm of life is closely connected with what the Bible calls wisdom.
Great Stage of Fools
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-07-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 153263854X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.
Six Tales from Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated Stories from Shakespeare
Author:
Publisher: Usborne Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780794529970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRomeo And Juliet
Author: Andrew Matthews
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2012-01-05
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 1408318008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver two million Shakespeare Shorts sold! Discover the world of Shakespeare with this collection of brilliant stories - perfect for readers of all ages. When Romeo and Juliet meet at a masked ball it's love at first sight. But their families are sworn enemies, and the very next day a deadly brawl breaks out between the Montagues and Capulets. Young Romeo is caught up in the fighting and as punishment is banished from the city - and sent away from Juliet for ever... A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare's most famous love story.
Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers
Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-05
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0486114007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve of the Bard's most famous plays, delightfully adapted for young readers: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, As You Like It, and eight others.
Shakespeare Stories
Author: Leon Garfield
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780395861400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great dramatist's works and those who are new to them. Michael Foreman's dramatic color illustrations and varied black-and-white line drawings are the perfect complement to this celebration of Shakespeare's genius.
Shakespeare's Kitchen
Author: Lore Segal
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2008-04-29
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1595585834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's stunning new book evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in the New Yorker (including the O. Henry Prize–;winning “The Reverse Bug”). Ilka Weisz has accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a think tank in Connecticut, reluctantly leaving her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza. Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, and Sunday brunches, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people's deaths. A magnificent and deeply moving work, Shakespeare's Kitchen marks the long-awaited return of a writer at the height of her powers.
A Midsummer Night's Dream and Other Classic Tales of the Plays
Author: Nicola Baxter
Publisher: Armadillo
Published: 2015-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781861474667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Shakespeare was born in England, in 1564, and is probably the best-known playwright and poet in the world. Even those who have never seen or read his work unknowingly use his language every day, as numerous phrases have passed into common use. His plays are enormously varied - as this book demonstrates - including histories, comedies and tragedies. Six of them are summarized here, with extracts from the original plays to encourage young readers to look at the complete texts or - even better - see them performed.
