Shakespeare's Stories: Comedies

by William Shakespeare and Beverley Birch

Book Overview

This handsome volume features five of the Bard's most outstanding comedies--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew, and The Tempest. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872261913
• ISBN13: 9780872261914
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Fantastic adaptation

This book contains some of the best adaptations I've ever read. This book contains modern English versions of Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, and The Tempest. They are very comprehensive, yet very easy to read. I highly recommend this book to anyone who either has trouble with Shakespeare or who has to read one of these comedies in a hurry!

This is a very funny story of Shakespeare.

I read 'SHAKESPEARE'S STORIES -Comedies-', and this book has five stories and I read 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. There were four young people and one of them, Hermia had to marry Demetrius, but Hermia loved Lysander. Harmia also had a best friend Helena who loved Demetrius. If Hermia chose Lysander, she have to be a nun or be killed, so she decided to tried to escape so they promise to meet in the wood. In a city, six men met in a workman's house. They practiced a play to the most important event for celebrations. Their play was a comedy. Their play was practiced in the wood secretly. In the wood, many fairies lived and king of them, Oberon, and his wife Titania was there. Titania loved an Indian boy so much, so Oberon angry with her. Then he hit an idea.He tried to use a flower 'love-in-idleness'. It could makes them madly love when they see first creature if they sleep and are put dews on their eyelids. First, he put it on his wife's eyelids when she slept and then, she woke up, she saw a man who wore ass head doll. He was one of the man who practiced a play in the wood. So, Titania fell love with a crazy ass head man. Then, Oberon told a Puck, a fairy, to use 'love-in idleness' to fall in love with Harmia and Lysander, Helena and Demetrius. But Puck mistaken, and Lysander and Demetrius became love Helena. Last is secret, because I want to read this story everyone. It is funny story, but I felt human's jealousy is very ugly and Shakespeare was great because but he expressed ' jealousy ' in comedy story in spite of it shows dark image.