| Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Contributor(s): Nesbit, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1420948199 ISBN-13: 9781420948196 Publisher: Digireads.com OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1030 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6" W x 9" (0.35 lbs) 100 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During her career popular children's writer Edith Nesbit collaborated on over sixty books of fiction for children. In "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" she turns her attention to series of interpretations of William Shakespeare's works. These retellings of Shakespeare's plays are written in a way can be easily understood by and entertaining to young readers. "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" includes a short biography of Shakespeare, a pronunciation guide, a list of famous quotations, and retellings of the following plays: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Tempest," "As You Like It," "The Winter's Tale," "King Lear," "Twelfth Night," "Much Ado About Nothing," "Romeo and Juliet," "Pericles," "Hamlet," "Cymbeline," "Macbeth," "The Comedy of Errors," "The Merchant of Venice," "Timon of Athens," "Othello," "The Taming of the Shrew," "Measure for Measure," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and "All's Well That Ends Well." |