Author: Andrew Matthews
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781408333815
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This series offers an excellent introduction to Shakespeare for younger readers. The tales have been retold using accessible language and each of the eight plays is vividly brought to life for a whole new audience.
Shakespeare Stories
Author: Andrew Matthews
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781408333815
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This series offers an excellent introduction to Shakespeare for younger readers. The tales have been retold using accessible language and each of the eight plays is vividly brought to life for a whole new audience.
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9781408333815
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This series offers an excellent introduction to Shakespeare for younger readers. The tales have been retold using accessible language and each of the eight plays is vividly brought to life for a whole new audience.
The Shakespeare story-book
Author: Mary Macleod
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Shakespeare Stories
Author: Leon Garfield
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Book of William
Author: Paul Collins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596911956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596911956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.
Collecting Shakespeare
Author: Stephen H. Grant
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411873
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday on April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 277,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, DC, for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. With unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411873
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday on April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 277,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, DC, for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. With unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465588027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465588027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Shakespeare and Macbeth
Author: Stewart Ross
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Historical finding and current critical thinking are woven together to tell the fascinating story of how Shakespeare conceived and wrote one of his greatest plays. As readers watch the production being mounted, Ross's narrative and Karpinski's carefully researched illustrations bring Shakespeare's world to vivid life. Full-color and black-and-white illustrations.
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Historical finding and current critical thinking are woven together to tell the fascinating story of how Shakespeare conceived and wrote one of his greatest plays. As readers watch the production being mounted, Ross's narrative and Karpinski's carefully researched illustrations bring Shakespeare's world to vivid life. Full-color and black-and-white illustrations.
Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare
Author:
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794529970
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794529970
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Selling Shakespeare
Author: Adam G. Hooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316495566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the people who created, bought, and sold books in the early modern period. The interests and investments of publishers and booksellers have defined our ideas of what is 'Shakespearean', and attending to their interests demonstrates how one version of Shakespearean authorship surpassed the rest. In this book, Adam G. Hooks identifies and examines four pivotal episodes in Shakespeare's life in print: the debut of his narrative poems, the appearance of a series of best-selling plays, the publication of collected editions of his works, and the cataloguing of those works. Hooks also offers a new kind of biographical investigation and historicist criticism, one based not on external life documents, nor on the texts of Shakespeare's works, but on the books that were printed, published, sold, circulated, collected, and catalogued under his name.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316495566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the people who created, bought, and sold books in the early modern period. The interests and investments of publishers and booksellers have defined our ideas of what is 'Shakespearean', and attending to their interests demonstrates how one version of Shakespearean authorship surpassed the rest. In this book, Adam G. Hooks identifies and examines four pivotal episodes in Shakespeare's life in print: the debut of his narrative poems, the appearance of a series of best-selling plays, the publication of collected editions of his works, and the cataloguing of those works. Hooks also offers a new kind of biographical investigation and historicist criticism, one based not on external life documents, nor on the texts of Shakespeare's works, but on the books that were printed, published, sold, circulated, collected, and catalogued under his name.
William Shakespeare
Author: Ari Berk
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763647942
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763647942
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.