The Best-loved Plays of ShakespeareTen plays -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Macbeth -- are presented in easy-to-read story form. For older readers there are quotations, analyses of the main characters, and information about the Elizabethan theater. Profusely illustrated, this is a storybook as well as a book for anyone going to see the plays, who wants to know more about them, or has to do Shakespeare at school. This is the best-selling children's Shakespeare book at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford-on-Avon. |
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... Polonius behind the arras 120 ; Ophelia's madness 120 ; Claudius urges Laertes to revenge 122 ; the death of Ophelia 122 ; at the graveyard 122 ; the fatal duel 124 ; Hamlet's death 124 Hamlet 114 character of 125 quotes : his ...
... Polonius behind the arras 120 ; Ophelia's madness 120 ; Claudius urges Laertes to revenge 122 ; the death of Ophelia 122 ; at the graveyard 122 ; the fatal duel 124 ; Hamlet's death 124 Hamlet 114 character of 125 quotes : his ...
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The Best-loved Plays of Shakespeare Jennifer Mulherin,William Shakespeare,Abigail Frost Limited preview - 2004 |
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