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Shakepeare's Storybook: Folk Tales That Inspired The Bard
Professional storyteller Patrick Ryan has brought together the stories that are at the heart of seven of Shakespeare's masterpieces. He introduces each story with fascinating information about its history and its prevalence in other cultures, as well as insights into local traditions and political issues that influenced Shakespeare's writing. Whether you are acquainted wit...more
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(first published 2001)
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Barefoot Books rarely disappoint me and they certainly have not here.
I love it when the introduction is written to the intended reader, to the child herself, rather than to the parent that is presumably responsible for causing the child to open the book. That is how this book opens, as it should be. Most excitingly, each short story has it's own introduction, also written to the child.
I was afraid the tales would be too abstractly related to the Shakespearean ones, but...more
I love it when the introduction is written to the intended reader, to the child herself, rather than to the parent that is presumably responsible for causing the child to open the book. That is how this book opens, as it should be. Most excitingly, each short story has it's own introduction, also written to the child.
I was afraid the tales would be too abstractly related to the Shakespearean ones, but...more
Awesome book. All the stories are so interesting! This is where Shakespeare got all his ideas.
Beautifully written and illustrated. I never knew that King Lear is related to "Cinderella," that As You Like It is related to "Snow White," and that Winter's Tale is related to "Sleeping Beauty." While the plays of Shakespeare are not based directly on the stories we know today, they often find their roots in the same legends. This book would be a perfect way to introduce kids to Shakespeare.
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This would be a good book to accompany any Shakespeare course, so that students could look at the folk tale that might have inspired the Bard.
My 5 year old loves this which is a good thing!
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Patrick Eugene Ryan (born 1965), who has also written under the name P. E. Ryan, is an American novelist and short story writer. His previous novel, 2009's In Mike We Trust, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature,[1] and was named by Booklist to its Rainbow List 2010 (bibliography of young adult books which include significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, transg...more
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