Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

by E. Nesbit


Description: Twenty stories from Shakespeare retold in lively prose. The author makes the complex language of Shakespeare's greatest plays accessible to young children by relating the stories that form the core of the plays. Her graceful, vivid retellings are the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's works.


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Ages:  9-12
Length:  262 pages
Format:  Paperback, Ebook
Illustrations:  Black and white
Year published:  2006
ISBN:  978-1-59915-029-1
Genres:  British Literature, Shakespeare

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Table of Contents

1. A Brief Life of Shakespeare
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream 
3. The Tempest 
4. As You Like It 
5. The Winter's Tale 
6. King Lear 
7. Twelfth Night 
8. Much Ado about Nothing 
9. Romeo and Juliet 
10. Pericles 
11. Hamlet 

12. Cymbeline
13. Macbeth 
14. The Comedy of Errors 
15. The Merchant of Venice 
16. Timon of Athens 
17. Othello 
18. The Taming of the Shrew 
19. Measure for Measure 
20. Two Gentlemen of Verona 
21. All's Well That Ends Well

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