Product Description

An audio version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It is one of a series of eight audio cassette productions of Shakespeare's plays which also include a plot summary, an "Introduction to Shakespeare", by Leon Garfield and "Shakespeare Today" by Rex Gibson.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1120575 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio Cassette

Customer Reviews

Superb book, indispensable for kids and grownups alike
I was given the hardback edition of this book and, although I don't re-read it too often, it has a comfortable place on my bookshelf. Leon Garfield's stories keep the original flavour of the plays while being easy to read. Not by any means a dumbed-down version, and the illustrations are absolutely beautiful. I can't recommend this highly enough. If you know an imaginative 8 year old, they will probably love this. Lots of people think Shakespeare is scary - but if you're reading or watching the plays after having read Garfield's story version, you won't regret it. Even if you like Shakespeare anyway, this book is a great way to keep the stories fresh and accessible.

Excellent Retellings.
These are stunningly well told versions of the plays.

They give not only the story, but a wonderful sense of the theatrical - you read and enjoy a visual sensation as well as the speech of Shakespeare (all the words 'spoken' are taken directly from Shakespeare's scripts).

Romeo and Juliet, for example, sweats in the heat of Verona. There is a fantastic image of wasps fighting! You go directly into the story - and moral considerations are there.

The pictures support the text well- giving yet another dimension to the book.

Forget Lamb!

I've used these stories in the classroom for many years now - partly because young people (11 through to much older!) relate to them -but also because I really enjoy re-reading them.

(There is a whole set of Abridged Shakspeare by Garfield too - and wonderful Animations done with Russian animators!)

excellent
This book is a really accessible way into Shakespeares stories. I used it with my year 8 class to introduce Shakespeare to them and they loved it. I will use this again, and with my own children.