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Books with title Shakespeare's stories

  • Stories from Shakespeare

    Marchette Chute

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet, Oct. 2, 1959)
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  • Stories from Shakespeare

    Anna Claybourne, Shakespear, Elena Temporin

    Hardcover (Usborne Publishing, Jan. 1, 2013)
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  • Stories from Shakespeare

    Geraldine McCaughrean, Antony Maitland

    Hardcover (Orion Children's Books, Jan. 1, 1994)
    Ten of Shakespeare's greatest plays, retold for children by multi-award winning author Geraldine McCaughrean.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.
  • Stories from Shakespeare

    Marchette Chute

    Paperback (Plume, Oct. 1, 1959)
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  • Stories from Shakespeare

    Marchette Gaylord Chute

    Library Binding (William Collins Pub, June 1, 1956)
    Retells in prose the 36 comedies, tragedies, and histories appearing in Shakespeare's First Folio.
  • Shakespeare

    Peter Chrisp

    Paperback (Gardners Books, July 16, 2004)
    Did you know special effects were used in Shakespeare's plays including devils and ghosts that came up through trapdoors in the stage? This work helps readers to discover the fascinating life and times of one of the world's greatest playwrights, from Shakespeare's birth in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon to theatre life in 16th century London.
  • Shakespeare's Tales

    Beverley Birch, Stephen Lambert

    Paperback (Hodder & Stoughton, Sept. 1, 2003)
    This book retells four of Shakespeare's most well-known plays: Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Othello, and The Tempest. With beautiful illustrations and poetic yet easily-understood language, this book is the perfect way to introduce young people to the work of Shakespeare.
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  • Short, Sharp Shakespeare Stories: Hamlet

    Anna Claybourne

    Paperback (Wayland, May 2, 2017)
    To be or not to be? That is the question...A murdered king, his haunted son, a wicked stepfather and a doomed romance... Read on, through madness and mystery, to discover the calamitous tale at the heart of Hamlet, one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.Contains information about the background to Hamlet, its major themes, language, and Shakespeare's life during the time he was writing the play. Madness, and how it was treated in 16th century England, is also examined, to give some context in which the play was written.The Short, Sharp Shakespeare series consists of six books that retell Shakespeare's most famous plays in modern English. Clever illustrations accompany each title, making them a great introduction to the Bard for children aged 9 and above.
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  • Shakespeare

    Roy Apps, Gini Wade

    Paperback (Hodder Wayland, )
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  • Shakespeare's Tales

    William Shakespeare, Beverley Birch, Stephen Lambert

    Paperback (Hodder Children's Books, July 17, 2008)
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  • Shakespeare's Storybook

    Patrick Ryan

    Audio CD (Barefoot Books, Dec. 16, 2007)
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  • Shakespeare's Spy

    Blackwood Gary

    Paperback (Scholastic, Inc., Aug. 16, 2005)
    "You will come into a fortune..." But what the fortune-teller doesn't tell Widge, the -orphan-boy-turned-actor in Will Shakespeare's company, is who is stealing from the company. Things are disappearing mysteriously, and it looks like an inside job. Everyone's eyes are on Widge, the former thief. Widge knows better than anyone that Shakespeare's plays must be protected at all costs. In order to prove his innocence and clear his name, Widge must learn a new role: spy. But can he dig through the suspects and skulduggery and catch the true culprit?
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