Books with title Shakespeare's Stories: The Histories

Here are the stories of 13 key Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Timson presents the complex plots in a clear, entertaining and informal style, presenting the main characters in the context of the famous lines. The stories contain important passages from the plays themselves, taken from the award-winning Naxos AudioBooks recordings.

Ten of Shakespeare's best-known stories are retold . with a twist! Hamlet - ten bodies litter the stage. Horatio is number one suspect . but is it an open-and-shut case? A Midsummer Night's Dream - strange things are happening in the woods. Puck mucks things up and Bottom makes an ass of himself. Puck reveals all. King Lear - eye-gourging, stabbing and poisoning . act out the play yourself - it's a laugh a minute! You've never read them like this before .