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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet is the classic tragedy of western literature. Created by William Shakespeare, it is tale of two very young lovers from Verona, Italy who defy the wishes of their feuding families, get married then, and tragically, end their own lives in the name of love. It is their deaths that ultimately help the rival families of the Capulet's and Montague's find reconciliation. Manga Classics brings an incredible new reading experience with this...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A Midsummer Night's Dream portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world."
4) Pericles
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (3 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Likely written around 1607 or 1608 and attributed at least in part to Shakespeare, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is an adventure-filled play that follows the extended sailing journeys of a young prince. Pericles, a young prince from Phoenicia, is forced to flee Antioch when he correctly guesses a riddle that reveals the incestuous activity of King Antiochus. Unable to stay at home in Tyre because of Antiochus' vengeance, he sails away and ends up shipwrecked...
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2009], p2009
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (77 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents scenes from thirteen of Shakespeare's plays performed in a radio theater style, intertwined with music's greatest hit from Beethoven to the Rolling Stones.
6) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Includes complete and unabridged text, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, notes on the main characters, and detailed explanations of difficult words. Also includes a brief biography and list of his works.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
9) Shakespeare
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
72 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
11) Julius Caesar
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Includes complete and unabridged text, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, notes on the main characters, and detailed explanations of difficult words. Also includes a brief biography and list of his works.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of "Shakespeare's Sonnets" (1609). Featuring a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare, it is a must for classical poetry enthusiasts and newcomers alike. Shakespeare's collection of 154 sonnets beautifully explore the age-old human themes of love and beauty, time and mortality, and contain some of the most revered lines in poetry such as, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a look inside the lives of such notable writers as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and others.
16) Macbeth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
19) Julius Caesar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" is a gripping political drama that delves into the complex themes of power, betrayal, and the consequences of ambition.
Set in ancient Rome, the play unfolds in the wake of Caesar's triumphant return from war. As the city celebrates his victories, a group of senators, including Brutus and Cassius, grows increasingly concerned about Caesar's growing influence and potential tyranny. They plot his assassination...