Berthoud Community Library District

Contains all the known plays and poems of William Shakespeare complete with user's guide to his works, background information on the famous author, and an explanation of Shakespearean language.

Retells Shakespeare's most popular plays in an easy-to-read format.

An introduction on using Shakespeare in elementary schools is followed by eight of his plays adapted for performance by children: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A midsummer night's dream, Julius Caesar, The comedy of errors, The taming of the Shrew, The tempest.

Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about political intrigue, personal betrayal, and the aftermath of a brutal assassination.

Combines elements of analysis, history, biography, performance, and the personal passions of six presenters to tell the stories behind the stories of six Shakespeare plays. Includes interviews with actors, directors, and scholars; visits to key locations; clips from celebrated film and television adaptations; and illustrative excerpts from performances staged at Shakespeare's Globe in London especially for the series.

Brando plays Stanley Kowalski to Vivien Leigh's Blanche Du Bois in a study of contrasting characters and value systems--new versus old: modern culture vs. the old South; Caesar returns from a triumphant battle to Rome only to fall into the assassination plot set by Brutus, Cassius, and Casca; a comedy about an interpreter sent to Japan after World War II; Southern Gothic based on an army base in Georgia about a sexually repressed army officer whose...

"Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of William Shakespeare's classic works. Now, today's best writers for teens take on the Bard in these fifteen whip-smart and original retellings!"--