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Title: Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield, Michael Foreman ISBN: 0-395-86140-3 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Way In!
Comment: These are stunningly well told versions of the plays.
They give not only the story, but a wonderful sense of the theatrical - you read and enjoy a visual sensation as well as the speech of Shakespeare (all the words 'spoken' are taken directly from Shakespeare's scripts).
Romeo and Juliet, for example, sweats in the heat of Verona. There is a fantastic image of wasps fighting! You go directly into the story - and moral considerations are there.
The pictures support the text well- giving yet another dimension to the book.
Forget Lamb!
I've used these stories in the classroom for many years now - partly because young people (11 through to much older!) relate to them -but also because I really enjoy re-reading them.
(There is a whole set of Abridged Shakspeare by Garfield too - and wonderful Animations done with Russian animators!)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Doorway to a New World
Comment: When I took my long service leave, I bought Garfield's books of Shakespeare's Stories (both volumes) and I hired videos of Shakespeare's plays. Working with these and the texts of the plays, I gave myself a course in Shakespeare's plays. It was one of the highlights of my life.
I had supposed the Laurence Olivier was some pompous old fart with a plum in his mouth. He is ELECTRIC. His Hamlet is a study in depression. His voice in "To be or not to be" is scarcely audible but carries so much emotion.
In all, I watched 22 different plays - my favourites, Richard 11 and Hamlet, in several different versions. I followed the BBC series which uses the same actors from one play to the next so that the Duke of Gloucester in one play is played by the same actor who later becomes Richard 11 in the next play.
Leon Garfield's story-telling with its light touch of irony and its perfect choice of words opened a door that I had assumed was marked "Other people only". Garfield wrote marvellous children's book and I've read them all but these books are the best of his achievements and they've made a big difference to my life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent choice for English teachers!
Comment: Excellent choice for English teachers who want to review Shakespeare's classics with students. I have also used this with my middle school students to introduce them to Shakespeare. The stories are written in clear language so that students will be able to understand the wonderful stories of the bard without being intimidated by Shakespearean language A must for all English teachers!
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Title: Shakespeare Stories II by Leon Garfield ISBN: 0395708931 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 27 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Beowulf : A New Telling by Robert Nye ISBN: 0440905605 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer ISBN: 0553210823 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages by Susan Wise Bauer, Patty Martirosian, Jay Wise ISBN: 0971412936 Publisher: Peace Hill Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Shakespeare/Coloring Book by Bellerophon Books ISBN: 0883880083 Publisher: Bellerophon Books Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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