Effective and appropriate early encounters with Shakespeare’s classic stories and characters can create a positive feeling about the Bard and his works that will remain with students throughout their school years and the rest of their lives
The play adaptations in this volume are designed to provide
just such a positive introduction to the works of Shakespeare.
These adaptations, culled from the pages of Read magazine,
have been favorites with our teacher subscribers—and their
students—for years
Every year, teachers write to tell us how well these
adaptations work in the classroom and to ask us to printmore.
Here, finally, are thirteen Read adaptations of some of
Shakespeare’s greatest and best-known works, collected
conveniently in one volume
In these adaptations we’vemodernized Shakespeare’s language so that young readers, as well as older readers with comprehension difficulties, will immediately be able to grasp and appreciate plot developments and characters’ motives
We’ve worked to preserve the flavor of Shakespeare’s wonderful originals while providing age-appropriate, simplified versions that your students can read or performin just one or two class periods
These adaptations can be used independently or as a useful precursor to a classroom reading or viewing of one of Shakespeare’s plays in its original version
These (13) plays are included
As You Like It
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night