Product Description

Take your place in the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's day to see seven of his best-loved plays in performance. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest are all brought vividly to life in Marcia Williams' gloriously accessible comic-strip versions, which include the bard's own dialogue and the rowdy remarks of the audience.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4944 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 40 pages

About the Author
Marcia Williams is a successful author/illustrator and, with her distinctive cartoon-strip style, has now illustrated and retold many literary classics for children, including The Adventures of Robin Hood (9781406311372), Greek Myths (9781406303476) and Oliver Twist and Other Great Dickens Stories (9781406305630). Her latest books are Archie's War (9781406304275 ), a child's diary of the First World War and My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright (9781406309409), a Second World War journal. Marcia lives in Barnes, London.

Customer Reviews

A brilliant, delightfully witty summarisation
A beautiful introduction to Shakespeare's most popular plays, perfect in every detail. Marcia Williams crystallises the plots of seven plays, each captured in four pages of comic strip. The result is accessible to quite small children while capturing all the magic and richness of the originals. My seven-year-old daughter's copy is falling apart from overuse. Please can we have a second volume (Othello, Twelfth Night, Lear...)?

Cartoon style plays
Simplified versions of Shakespeare's plays, very cleverly re-told in cartoon strips, that helps bring them to life for children (and adults) to understand.

funny inspiring window into shakspears art of words and idea
i have never seen such an inspiring variety of work available to children . i have as a parent been happy to read and have also enjoyd learning .I have found my children very focused on what is quiet diffiault to understand sometimes but the format makes them willing to try ,they are only 4 and 6 .There is more there for older children but we liked it so much that we tried and enjoyed it.