num_pages: 192
description: 'The barge she sat in like a burnished throne, burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails...' A lyrical re-telling of Shakespeare's plays; Hamlet, The Tempest, Anthony and Cleopatra and Othello by respected children's author Beverley Birch, partnered with sublime illustrations by Stephen Lambert. A perfect introduction to these landmark plays.
language: English
title: Tales from Shakespeare
titlecomplete: Tales from Shakespeare
characters: Puck, Banquo, Romeo, King Lear, Juliet Morris, Lady Macbeth, Titania, Nick Bottom, Oberon, Duncan, Macbeth, Prospero, Hamlet, Pericles, Prince of Tyre
genres: Fiction, Plays, Short Stories, English Literature, Drama, Young Adult, Literature, Classics, Novels, Childrens
ratings_count: 6221
places: Venice, Ephesus, Illyria, Tarsus, Elsinore, Bohemia, Athens, Messina, Sicily, Verona, Cyprus, Antioch, Sicily, Tyre, Padua, Veneto, Vienna, Lesbos
publisher: Michael O'Mara Books