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The Signet Classic Shakespeare Library
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General Editor: Sylvan Barnet. A complete library of Shakespeare's plays, as well as the sonnets and other poems, in authoritative editions edited by outstanding Shakespeare scholars. Every volume contains prefatory remarks on Shakespeare, an introduction to the play, notes on the text and Shakespeare's sources, and a selection of classic and contemporary commentaries on the play and its characters. Excellent for more advanced students. Signet. |
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The New Folger Library Shakespeare
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Edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Retaining the format and features of the Folger Library's General Reader's Shakespeare, these 18 plays have been completely reedited "to incorporate the best and most current thinking concerning both the texts and their interpretation" (Werner Gundersheimer, director of the Folger). The facing-page glossaries have been completely revised to be more helpful to today's students. Washington Square Press. |
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Cambridge School Shakespeare
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This innovative series focuses on Shakespeare's plays as scripts to be imaginatively reinvented by students in light of their own life experiences. The full, unabridged text of each play is presented along with theater games and writing activities on facing pages. In Julius Caesar, students read Antony's speech to Caesar's dead body as if it were a bedtime story. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, groups compare the rites of May with their own holidays. And in Romeo and Juliet, they improvise versions of the balcony scene. Capsulized explanations and definitions are provided on activity pages. Valuable for theater classes as well as literature studies. Includes photographs from Royal Shakespeare Company productions. Illustrated. Published in Great Britain. Cambridge University Press. ©1992-99. |
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Oxford School Shakespeare Series
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Edited by Roma Gill. Designed to make Shakespeare accessible to high school students, this series presents the plays with extensive glosses to aid in bridging the language gap. Introductions to each play offer sketches of the major characters; background information, such as Shakespeare's sources, the actors he created parts for, and where the plays were performed; and textual clarifications, including the reasons for contractions and the meanings of stage directions. Illustrations and explanatory notes in the margins amplify the text. Questions with suggested answers and a brief biography of Shakespeare follow each play. Illustrated. |
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Shakespeare for Kids Series
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Shakespeare for second graders? For 20 years teacher Lois Burdett has condensed Shakespeare's plots and simplified the plays into rhyming couplets. Then her youngsters perform Shakespeare as Readers Theatre or puppet plays, or they act out scenes in front of the class. As they read and discuss a play, the children express their insights into character and plot by painting portraits or scenes of shipwrecks, sword fights, or weddings. Impersonating characters, they write diaries, letters, valentines, and challenges to duels. They design costumes and dress their "stage" with props. These delightful books combine Burdett's easy-reading scripts with inspiring examples of her students' writing and artwork. Grades 2-4. Illustrated. Black Moss. |
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Shakespeare for Young People
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Edited by Diane Davidson. To encourage beginning students of Shakespeare to read, act out, and enjoy the Bard's work, this series presents seven modified plays that retain Shakespeare's original words. Each play has been cut to about 40 minutes playing time. Added to the plays are two optional announcers, who introduce the scenes and help explain difficult passages. Descriptions and stage directions are provided in the manner of modern plays. The books also contain helpful production notes for those staging the plays with minimal facilities and/or experience. Recommended for grades 5-8 and hard-to-motivate high school students. Illustrated. Swan. |
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Shakespeare Parallel Text Series
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A series presenting Shakespeare's plays in both the original text and in a line-by-line modern English paraphrase. The contemporary "translation" on facing pages illuminates difficult and outdated elements of the original Elizabethan language. The paraphrase is not meant as a substitute for reading Shakespeare, but as an alternative to the heavy annotations which sometimes frustrate modern readers. The texts include a special supplement with study and test questions, vocabulary, and background material. A response key is also available (free with 25 or more copies of a single title). Illustrated. Perfection Learning. |
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The Sixty-Minute Shakespeare
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Adapted by Cass Foster. An ideal alternative for those who lack the time or resources to tackle to unabridged texts. The series works well for fully-mounted productions, scene work in the classroom, ESL programs, or remedial studies. The plays are condensed, but the original language is kept intact. Helpful footnotes on each page define unfamiliar words and phrases, and valuable suggestions for staging, pacing, and thematic exploration are included. Grades 6 and up. Approximately 70 pages each. Five Star. ©1997. |
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