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An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
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LEON GARFIELD won many awards including The Carnegie Medal, The Guardian Award, The Whitbread Prize and the Children's Book Award. He is best known for his historical novels. Leon Garfield died in 1996. MICHAEL FOREMAN is one of the leading children's illustrators working today. He has won many prestigious awards including the Smarties Book Prize and the Federation of Children's Book Groups' Children's Book Award. He lives in London and St Ives, Cornwall.
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Grade 5 Up The value of this book will depend upon the intended use. From the deep orange endpapers, through generous margins and clear print, to the multitude of evocative illustrations, the volume is a delight. Foreman's intense watercolors and lively ink-wash illustrations go far to help create the moods of the stories. The storytelling is unevenGarfield is able to evoke the heartbreak of King Lear but fails to convey the crazy humor of Twelfth Night but it is generally competent enough. However, Garfield's visual descriptions are so specific and so lavish; his line interpretations so absolute that he almost guarantees that any given production will seem inadequate after such a buildup! Libraries that have Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (Macmillan, 1963; o.p.) or Chute's Stories from Shakespeare (World, 1956; o.p.) probably don't need to add this luxury item. Garfield covers only 12 of the best-known plays, while the Lambs tell 20 tales and Chute leads the pack with 36. While Garfield's style is more accessible to modern readers and covers the plays more completely than the evasive Victorianisms of the Lambs, he must take a back seat when compared with the lucid straightforward prose in Chute's book. Sally T. Margolis, Town and Country Day School, Kensington, Md.
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- PublisherSchocken
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 080523991X
- ISBN 13 9780805239911
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages287
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Michael Foreman (illustrator). Hardcover brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Includes color and b/w illustrations, 288 pages. The DJ is in Very Good + condition with the exception of price clipped and wear to the extremities. Seller Inventory # 011508
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FOREMAN MICHAEL (illustrator). 1st Edition. SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED A REFASHIONING OF THE DRAMAS AS STORIES THAT REMAIN TRUE TO THE ORIGINALFULL PAGE COLOR AND B/W DRAWINGS BY MICHAEL FOREMAN LIGHT WEAR AT TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE OTHERWISE A VERY NICE FIRST PRINTING JACKET IS CLIPPED BUT BRIGHT AND COMPLETE. Seller Inventory # 009208
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Foreman (illustrator). First U.S. edition. From a much admired children's author comes a rendering into narrative form of twelve of Will's best loved plays. As usual with Leon Garfield, the book is ostensibly aimed at children, but since he never talks down to his readers, it's a book that can appreciated just as much by grown-ups. And while not as uproariously funny as Nicolas Bentley's retellings, Garfield makes the most of opportunities to be humorous. On the first page, for instance, he describes Sir Toby Belch as a "fat bag of wind and merriment" who floats around "like a portly bubble in stained brocade". First published in the U.K., this is the first printing of the US edition. There's a small indentation on the rear board and a small name on front pastedown, otherwise a fine copy in very good, slightly rubbed dust jacket with two internally repaired nicks to top edge. Seller Inventory # 002368
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