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Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits

Published
May 2016
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General Fiction General Fiction
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168

About This Book

Though written nearly four hundred years ago, the stories in Shakespeare's plays are relevant to any age. Stories of love, hate, jealousy, murder, greed, and magic. Comedies and tragedies to appeal to every taste.

Humphrey Carpenter has retold the stories from twelve of Shakespeare's plays in an original and exciting way. Using contemporary language, each story is told from a different character's point of view and in a different style.

Includes retellings of:

  • Hamlet
  • Twelfth Night
  • Julius Caesar
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Macbeth
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • King Lear
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • Othello
  • As You Like It
  • The Winter's Tale
  • The Tempest

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First Edition May 2016 Createspace ISBN 1523381795
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