Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit
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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Author: Edith Nesbit

Narrator: Laurellee Westaway, Bobbie Frohman, David Thorn

Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2014

Synopsis

In Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit retells the stories of William Shakespeare's plays, making them accessible to children, while evoking the drama and excitement of the originals. Included in this collection are"A Midsummer Night's Dream ""The Tempest""As You Like It""The Winter's Tale""King Lear""Twelfth Night""Night Much Ado about Nothing""Romeo and Juliet""Pericles""Hamlet""Cymbeline""Macbeth""The Comedy of Errors""The Merchant of Venice""Timon of Athens""Othello""The Taming of the Shrew""Measure for Measure""Two Gentleman of Verona""All's Well That Ends Well"

About Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) lived in England and had dreamed of becoming a poet since she was fifteen years old. After her husband fell ill, it was up to her to support her small family. For the next nineteen years, she wrote novels, essays, articles, poems, and short stories; but it was not until 1899, when The Story of the Treasure Seekers was published, that she achieved great success. Her groundbreaking style of depicting realistic, believable children quickly gained a popularity that has lasted for more than a century.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.

About Bobbie Frohman

Bobbie Frohman, a third generation Californian, was raised in a large extended family, the niece of cowboys. Early on she developed a deep love of animals, training her dogs to perform with her at dog shows, and as a competitive barrel racer with her beloved horse, Lucky.

About David Thorn

David Thorn spent his childhood in the Channel Islands off the coast of France, was schooled in England, and then immigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-three. He is retired from international commerce and currently resides in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on January 31, 2018

Just finished reading this with my student over a couple year period. He drew posters or pictures of the characters and plot while I read. He loves Shakespeare and this book helped a lot along with my own love of Shakespeare :) My student wants to read all the rest of the plays now!......more

Goodreads review by Amy on May 25, 2019

We slowly worked our way through this all school year and the boys loved it. The language is challenging but not too hard, and a couple plays we read twice to really soak in the story. I own an old discarded library copy with the loveliest illustrations. I’m sure we’ll read this again in the future.......more

Goodreads review by Trish on March 23, 2017

Get acquainted with Shakespeare's beautiful stories in this easy to read/ easy to listen to book.......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia on January 09, 2015

When a writer, who is distilling down Shakespeare to the basic stories for children, begins her version of Macbeth with these words "When a person is asked to tell the story of Macbeth, he can tell two stories. One is of a man who came to the throne of Scotland by a crime in the year 1039, and reign......more

Goodreads review by Becky on April 25, 2019

First sentence: It was evening. The fire burned brightly in the inn parlour. We had been that day to see Shakespeare's house, and I had told the children all that I could about him and his work. Now they were sitting by the table, poring over a big volume of the Master's plays, lent them by the land......more

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