Six of Shakespeare's most famous plays are beautifully retold and illustrated for children - the intricate comedies of A Midsummer's Night Dream and Twelfth Night, the tragedies of Hamlet and Macbeth,
It is the time of Shakespeare. Storms rage, armies clash, magics are done - and stories are made. Five new great and terrible tales reshape the Bard’s vision, a new set of stories that will be told an
From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories... Orphaned pot-girl Mary has buckets of stage blood to clear up under the horrible gaze of Master `Foulbrew'. Can she find a way to escape her revolt
From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories... Jane and John have uncovered a wicked plot to steal the throne from Queen Elizabeth I of England while she watches a play. Can they stop it in time
Shakespeare’s Ear presents dark and sometimes funny pieces of fact and folklore that bedevil the mostly unknown history of theater. All manner of skullduggery, from revenge to murder, from affairs to
From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories... Down at the theatre, Sam is about to star in Shakespeare's new play, Romeo and Juliet, but people are whispering that a plague is spreading through
Enjoy the best of the Bard with coloring books, paper dolls, bookmarks, and more! The kit contains Ten Tales from Shakespeare — enthralling prose retellings for young readers; 2 paper dolls with costu
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling … the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and cul
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adven
《莎士比亞戲劇故事集》（TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB）是蘭姆姐弟改寫莎士比亞最膾炙人口的六個悲劇和十四個喜劇而成，1809年出版，副題是“專為年輕人而作”，很快銷售一空。本書保留了莎翁原著的精華，被譽為莎劇與廣大讀者之間的一座寶貴的橋樑，和《伊利亞隨筆》一樣，經歷時間淘洗而熠熠生輝。 本書在中國影響深遠。1903年即以《澥外奇譚》之
這些劇本多以愛情、友誼和婚姻為主題，情節豐富，角色鮮活，故事生動有趣，揭示人們的感情衝突和現實生活中的矛盾，而最後以皆大歡喜的喜劇收場。本套書特選自Charles and Mary Lamb於1807所出版的Tales From Shakespeare，以故事而非劇本的方式呈現，原為英國兒童所寫，無論是語言或情節都較原劇本簡單易懂，文筆精湛，是絕佳的莎劇入門讀物。本套書每篇故事前皆以導讀引導賞析閱
本套書特選自Charles and Mary Lamb於1807所出版的Tales From Shakespeare，以故事而非劇本的方式呈現，原為英國兒童所寫，無論是語言或情節都較原劇本簡單易懂，文筆精湛，是絕佳的莎劇入門讀物。本套書每篇故事前皆以導讀引導賞析閱讀，英文原文一字不漏地完整呈現，保留原用法、語法、標點符號之餘，更適度調整段落，以符合現代學習者的閱讀習慣。除有英漢雙語注釋，並附上莎翁
