The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the original American fairy tale by L. Frank Baum, is an old tale told new, time and time again, in the years since it was first published in 1900. In this new rendition of Baum's familiar story, the wisdom and truths in Shakespeare's plays have been overlaid onto the tale of Dorothy's adventure in the Land of Oz. Baum's aim was not to lecture or impart a particular moral, but to entertain and amuse. Yet The Wonderful...