Tales from Shakespeare
By: by Marcia Williams
Contributors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780744588828; 9781406361025
Subjects: Graphic novels; Children's stories, English
Description: Travel back to the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's day as Marcia Williams brings fourteen of the Bard's best-loved plays to life. Discover why Romeo and Juliet's love affair was doomed, who murdered Hamlet's beloved father and how a man with a donkey's head captured the heart of the fairy queen. These brilliantly accessible retellings feature Shakespear's own dialogue and plenty of witty, colourful illustrations.
Table of contents: title: A Midsummer Night's Dream; title: Macbeth; title: As You Like It; title: Romeo and Juliet; title: The Tempest; title: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; title: Antony and Cleopatra; title: Twelfth Night; title: The Tragedy of King Richard III; title: The Merchant of Venice; title: Julius Caesar; title: Much Ado About Nothing; title: King Lear; title: The Winter's Tale.