Romeo and Juliet (Teacher's Manual) (Picture This! Shakespeare)
Gr. 8-11. Most of Shakespeare's original text is here, along with notes about literary devices, glosses on idioms, and study questions, which appear at appropriate points in the text. On many pages the dialogue is delivered by cartoon characters rendered in black and white and attired in period dress. Their well-imagined body language and facial expressions make the text more understandable. Other pages use boxes to present straight text. Traditional line numbers and specifics about elisions in the text are not presented, but this still makes a good alternative for students reading the tragedy to themselves for the first time. Other titles in the new series, includingTwelfth NightandA Midsummer Night's Dream, edited by the same team and illustrated again by Page, prove the series as a reliable new approach to introducing Shakespeare; characters are nicely individualized, and the texts read smoothly on both the illustrated and the traditionally presented text pages.Francisca GoldsmithCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.