Comedies of Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)

by William Shakespeare, BookCaps (Translator)

Overview

Shakespeare is the most critically acclaimed playright of all time. So why is he so hard to understand? This massive anthology of Shakespeare's comedies will give you a new appreciation of William Shakespeare by putting each of his comedy works in plain and simple English.

Included in this anthology:
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Noble Kinsmen
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Winter Tale

The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940014880862
Publisher:	BookCaps Study Guides
Publication date:	08/16/2012
Series:	Classics Retold , #34
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	305,567
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

No writer will ever equal William Shakespeare's influence on the English language. Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, "The Bard" was an actor and playwright who had staged his own shows in London by 1592. Though little is known about his early life, he forsooth proved himself a virtuoso for the ages. Expanding the boundaries of the English language, Shakespeare penned dozens of plays -- from enduring tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, to bawdy comedies like A Midsummer Night's Dream -- plus more than 150 sonnets during his towering career. He shuffled off this mortal coil in 1616, but more than half a millennium later, his works are still read and produced around the world, including at a modern thatched-roof reconstruction of his troupe's Globe Theatre in London.