Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
First US edition. | |
Author | Edith Nesbit |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Children's novel |
Publisher |
T. Fisher Unwin (UK) D.E. Cunningham & Co. (US) |
Publication date | 1907 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and telling William Shakespeare's plays in a way they could be easily understood. She included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult names and a list of famous quotations, arranged by subject.[1]
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Tempest
- As You Like It
- The Winter's Tale
- King Lear
- Twelfth Night
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Romeo and Juliet
- Pericles
- Hamlet
- Cymbeline
- Macbeth
- The Comedy of Errors
- The Merchant of Venice
- Timon of Athens
- Othello
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Measure for Measure
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- All's Well That Ends Well
References
- ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E0DF1F3DF93BA3575BC0A9629C8B63 Tales From Shakespeare, New York Times Children's Books
External links
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare at Project Gutenberg
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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