Twelfth Night

by Stephen Rickard

Twelfth Night is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeare's key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The play is retold as a straightforward, pacey narrative in chapter-book format. The book use the present tense and lots of dialogue (in present-day English) to recreate he experience of actually watching the play. The text follow the original plays faithfully so students can acquire an accurate understanding of the action and plot. Memorable quotations from the original text (in italics) make this book perfect for exam crammers! Plus each book includes visual information to help pupils get to grips with the plot, the key characters and their important relationships in the play. The stories are all presented in the period of the play but with modern day language. Written by experienced writer Jill Atkins these are really accessible books. They are perfect for getting all pupils, whatever their ability, comfortable with each play before they go on to study it in its original form and a great all round introduction to Shakespeare.

Paperback

Published August 28, 2018

About the author

I'm not really a writer. I just happen to write now and again. I work for Ransom Publishing: it's my job to put the books together, finding or commissioning illustrations, designing layouts, working with the authors, etc. etc. I tend to pick up a lot of the more pedestrian writing - Teacher's Guides and Workbooks that nobody else is very keen to do.

I'm from Newport, South Wales (I've never been back) and got into publishing after about 25 years of doing other stuff, including studying Law (LLB Hons Nottingham University) MBA (Cass Business School, London), BBC Studio Manager, then about 8 years on the dole working in music: especially with This Heat and The Camberwell Now. Then consultancy bits and bobs and now here I am.