Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children [SCM]
by Evelyn Nesbit Editor
Shakespeare's plays reproduced in story form with all their might and majesty so children can understand and enjoy them. Also includes a brief life of Shakespeare, a pronunciation guide, and a collection of quotations.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0-7651-9490-2
- Print Status
- In Print
- Tales
- 20
- Pages
- 317
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 12th
- Publisher
- Smithmark Publishers
- Copyright
- 1907
Tales
- 1 A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 2 The Tempest
- 3 As You Like It
- 4 The Winter's Tale
- 5 King Lear
- 6 Twelfth Night
- 7 Much Ado About Nothing
- 8 Romeo and Juliet
- 9 Pericles
- 10 Hamlet
- 11 Cymbeline
- 12 Macbeth
- 13 The Comedy of Errors
- 14 The Merchant of Venice
- 15 Timon of Athens
- 16 Othello
- 17 The Taming of the Shrew
- 18 Measure for Measure
- 19 Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 20 All's Well That Ends Well
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Reviewed by Parent/Teacher
People often ask me what the difference is between this book by Nesbit and the similar one by Lamb. Here's my opinion: Both are great; but Nesbit is a bit easier read for younger children. For example, here is the opening from A Midsummer Night's Dream in each:
Nesbit -- "Hermia and Lysander were lovers; but Hermia's father wished her to marry another man, named Demetrius. Now, in Athens, where they lived, there was a wicked law, by which any girl who refused to marry according to her father's wishes, might be put to death."
Lamb -- "There was a law in the city of Athens, which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to marry whomsoever they pleased: for upon a daughter's refusing to marry the man her father had chosen to be her husband, the father was empowered by this law to cause her to be put to death."