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The Children's Shakespeare (Audio Cassette)

by William Shakespeare (Author)
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This single-cassette recording is a re-release of the 1999 Grammy winner for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. It's frankly hard to see how it garnered that prize. The narrations themselves are generally fine, but the seven abridgments (dating to 1907 and including PERICLES and THE WINTER'S TALE, in addition to the familiar HAMLET, KING LEAR, and ROMEO AND JULIET) are precious, humorless, and so brief that they inspire no interest in the plays. Adapting Shakespeare for children has been done so much better--notably by Leon Garfield, whose marvelous work has been recorded by Chivers. Perhaps this reviewer doth protest too much, but the production is further sunk by the distracting ambient music. D.B. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine


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...to families who want to share their Shakespeare with children ...this book would make a good beginning. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This audiobook has enthralled my children., Dec 10 2005
By llong (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Children's Shakespeare (Paperback)
My children are now very interested in Shakespeare and can tell you the plot of many of his plays. They loved this audiobook. I cannot say enough good about it. I am sure it will lead them to pursue Shakespeare at a more advanced level as they mature themselves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic introduction to Shakespeare for younger children, Mar 21 2004
By Bryn S Dews (Chelmsford, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Children's Shakespeare (Paperback)
I read and reread this book as a youth. The stories read much like classic fairy tales with tragedy, irony, and moral lessons. The writing is very accessible and encouraged me to seek out the full length "stories" in their original (play script) form once I was old enough (6th/7th grade) to really read them.

For a child who has a love of literature, these retellings of the great plays may start a life-long interest in Shakespeare's art (as they did for me).

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lorenzo Schiavo and Felipe Gravier, Aug 9 2002
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This review is from: The Children's Shakespeare (Paperback)
Romeo and Juliet

Felipe Gravier and Lorenzo Schiavo review:

We think that Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose families are in a terrible fight which prevents them from coming together. How far the couple will go to be together becomes the focus of the story. Of his richest poetry. The opening and closing choruses are some of his most outstanding work. Romeo's It is a brilliant love story but not much more. It still possesses however some wooing of Juliet is fabulously written. The Friar gets the best lines. Mercutio is one the best friends of Romeo. It is not as good as Shakespeare has written but it's still a fabulous book and up there with his best work. One part of the play we didn't like was that for the tow families get arrange there two kids had to die.
The English language wasn't finally finished so Shakespeare had the liberty to create words and play with the language, as he liked. That's why It was so difficult to understand what each character wanted to express so the teacher had to explain us each of that words and teach us all the words in that age and told us which were the words in the English of today.

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