Stories from Shakespeare
Author(s): Geraldine McCaughrean
Ten of Shakespeare's greatest plays, retold for children by multi-award winning author Geraldine McCaughrean, and reissued to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare's death.From love, jealousy, greed and betrayal to mad kings, magic and murder, Geraldine McCaughrean retells some of Shakespeare's best-known stories, including Romeo and Juliet, Henry the Fifth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and The Tempest.With easy to follow prose punctuated with well-known quotations and featuring a cast list for each play, this accessible collection will delight and entertain readers of all ages.
Product Information
The contents are not only a pleasing translation, as it were, but written with the hallmarks of a craftsman: skilful simplicity and a well trained eye for the telling phrase. Theatre Magazine"
General Fields
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- : Hachette Children's Group
- : Orion Children's Books
- : 0.158757
- : 01 February 2017
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Geraldine McCaughrean
- : 176
- : 823.914
- : English
- : 1
- : Paperback
