First encounters with Shakespeare's plays
In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas ...
William Shakespeare comes alive for students with these engaging activities. This book introduces four plays: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Macbeth," "Hamlet," and "Romeo and Juliet.
The Shakespeare Book has visual plot summaries of each one, with diagrams to show the intricate web of relationships in plays such as A Midsummer's Night Dream.
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.
That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet. Have your children break this section down into three parts and learn them one at a time. To but thy name that is my enemy. , . . 0, be some other name.
Campbell, Oscar J. "Comicall Satyre" and Shakespeares “Troilus and Cressida. "San Marino, Calif: Huntington ... Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich, and Susan Merrill Squier Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
In every case, Greenblatt brings a flash of illumination to the work, enabling us to experience these great plays again as if for the first time, and with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity ...
" -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare.
Immersing students in his life and times and characters, this book introduces elementary students to four plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.
Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.