Books with title Shakespeare Stories

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a collection of twenty stories retold by the great Edith Nesbit. First released in 1907 with the goal of making the great plays that have influenced western culture easily understandable for children, these re-tellings have been a perfect introduction to 'The Bard' for over a century. This edition is presented with all the original page decorations and over eighty illustrations rearranged to match Ambleside Online reading order.

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.