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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
E. Nesbit
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Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare’s great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children would not only understand, but delight in. This is a marvelous introduction to the works of Shakespeare that ALL will enjoy.
Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare’s great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children would not only understand, but delight in. This is a marvelous introduction to the works of Shakespeare that ALL will enjoy.
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"I will draw the curtain," said Paulina; "you will think it lives presently."
"Ah, sweet Paulina," said Leontes, "make me to think so twenty years together."
"If you can bear it," said Paulina, "I can make the statue move, make it come down and take you by the hand. Only you would think it was by wicked magic."
"Whatever you can make her do, I am content to look on," said the King.
And then, all folks there admiring and beholding, the statue moved from its pedestal, and came down the steps and put its arms round the King's neck, and he held her face and kissed her many times, for this was no statue, but the real living Queen Hermione herself. She had lived hidden, by Paulina's kindness, all these years, and would not discover herself to her husband, though she knew he had repented, because she could not quite forgive him till she knew what had be. . . Read More
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كان شكسبير يُعلم قُرَّاءه عن طريق إسعادهم. تحتوي مسرحياته (إذا نحَّينا الجانب العلمي البحت) على حكمة حقيقية أكثر من كل أشكال التعلُّم الإنجليزية. إنه معلم لكلِّ أشكال الفضائل؛ الرحمة، والكرم، والشجاعة الحقيقية، والحب. لقد تشكَّلت براعته المُضيئة «على هيئة نجوم صغيرة». وتجسَّدت معارفه الغزيرة العميقة
احببت الكتاب حقًا ، بالأخص اني لطالما أردت ان اعرف الكثير عن اعمال شيكسبير، بالطبع ان القصص مختزله ومختصرة كثيراً لكني احببت هذا لان الكاتبه اعطتني فرصه انا القي نظره على هذا كله يعتبر في عالم الكتب ليس كبير ، احببت انها في نهاية الكتاب وضعت بعضًا من أقوال شيكسبير المشهورة واين ذكرت بالتحديد.. عمل ر
We slowly worked our way through this all school year and the boys loved it. The language is challenging but not too hard, and a couple plays we read twice to really soak in the story. I own an old discarded library copy with the loveliest illustrations. I’m sure we’ll read this again in the future.
First sentence: It was evening. The fire burned brightly in the inn parlour. We had been that day to see Shakespeare's house, and I had told the children all that I could about him and his work. Now they were sitting by the table, poring over a big volume of the Master's plays, lent them by the land
Just finished reading this with my student over a couple year period. He drew posters or pictures of the characters and plot while I read. He loves Shakespeare and this book helped a lot along with my own love of Shakespeare :)
My student wants to read all the rest of the plays now!
Get acquainted with Shakespeare's beautiful stories in this easy to read/ easy to listen to book.
When a writer, who is distilling down Shakespeare to the basic stories for children, begins her version of Macbeth with these words "When a person is asked to tell the story of Macbeth, he can tell two stories. One is of a man who came to the throne of Scotland by a crime in the year 1039, and reign