Author: Edith NesbitPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465588027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Author: Edith NesbitPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465588027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Historical Tales from Shakespeare
Author: Arthur Quiller-CouchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Illustrated Tales from Shakespeare
Author: Charles LambPublisher: JG Press
ISBN: 9781572152175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic plays based on the original stories of Charles and Mary Lamb offers prose editions of the Bard's great comedies, tragedies, and history plays, all lavishly illustrated in full color.
Shakespeare Stories
Author: Leon GarfieldPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395861400
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great dramatist's works and those who are new to them. Michael Foreman's dramatic color illustrations and varied black-and-white line drawings are the perfect complement to this celebration of Shakespeare's genius.
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Author: Bronwyn ReddanPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Tales from Shakespeare (Book 1)
Author: MadhubunPublisher: Vikas Publishing House
ISBN: 8125951482
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Tales from Shakespeare has reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare to a simple level that children can read and comprehend. The following plays have been selected and adapted into tales for the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare: The Tempest
Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers
Author: E. NesbitPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Twelve of the Bard's most famous plays, delightfully adapted for young readers: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, As You Like It, and eight others.
The Temple Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareFairy Tales From Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)
Author: Fay AdamsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484667081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Excerpt from Fairy Tales From Shakespeare A long, long time ago, when Fairies, Sprites, and Witches dwelt in the forests, there lived a tiny Fairy King whose name was Oberon, and though a wee mite, he felt very large, and would strut around in a most amusing manner. His Queen Titania was a beautiful fairy, and for so small a body she carried herself with great grace and dignity. Now, we find that fairies sometimes quarrel and do naughty things, just as do little girls and boys and even grown-ups at times. Fairy King Oberon and Queen Titania Often quarreled because Titania refused to give a little boy (whom she had reared) to King Oberon for a page. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Richard Armour