Shakespeare stories II
Leon Garfield, Michael Foreman (Illustrator), Houghton Mifflin Company (Publisher)
In this magnificent companion volume to Shakespeare Stories, superbly illustrated by Michael Foreman, Leon Garfield presents in narrative form another nine of Shakespeare's best-loved plays. Skillfully, the author conveys the plots, characters, settings and moods of the original works, and reveals their unique theatrical impact for today's reader. While he has refashioned the dramas as stories, Garfield has retained much of Shakespeare's own language, so that his tellings remain true to the essential spirit of the plays themselves. From the light romance and comedy of Much Ado About Nothing to the dark political drama of Richard III, all of the flavor and tone of the plays is evoked in these clever retellings, accompanied by stunning paintings which complement and reinforce the text. By turns playful, stirring, gentle and stark, Michael Foreman's color and black-and-white illustrations provide a wonderfully rich visual interpretation of the many-faceted masterworks
Print Book, English, 1995
1st American ed View all formats and editions
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1995
Children's stories
284, [4] pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9780395708934, 9780395891094, 0395708931, 0395891094
30318702
Much ado about nothing
Julius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
Measure for measure
As you like it
Cymbeline
King Richard the Third
The comedy of errors
The winter's tale