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Books
EASY
READING SHAKESPEARE
The Bard in Bite-Size Verse - Volume Three
Published by : Book
Guild Publishing
Pavilion View
19 New Road
BRIGHTON
BN1 1UF
Tel : 01273 720900
Hard Back £15.99 ISBN 1-84624-059-X
Paper Back £9.99 ISBN 978-1-84624-290-8
Suitable for ages 10+
Illustrations by Michael Avery
From
the jacket of Volume Three ……
In this, his final volume of Easy Reading Shakespeare,
Richard Cuddington turns his attention to the less
well-known plays of Shakespeare, and completes his
approachable and straightforward treatment of the canon.
These are some of Shakespeare’s most intriguing works: by
turns puzzling, lyrical, obscure, fantastical and
sometimes horrifying. In the author’s clear and
illuminating verses readers will meet kings – good, bad
and foolish; knights – noble, lovesick or vain; Roman
generals – tragic victims of cruelty, like Titus
Andronicus, or authors of their own downfall, like
Coriolanus. They will sail the seas with Pericles,
buffeted by Fortune; laugh at the ridiculous antics of fat
and lecherous Jack Falstaff as he pursues the affections
of two merry wives of Windsor; and thrill to the pageantry
and intrigue of the Wars of the Roses. There is farce with
the absurd confusions experienced by two sets of identical
twins in The Comedy of Errors; tragic irony in the
story of The Two Noble Kinsmen; and enough blood
and gore to satisfy fans of Stephen King in Titus
Andronicus.
Readers reluctant to approach the works of Shakespeare
will be swept off their feet by the very diversity and
richness of these colourful stories which, despite their
historical context, are shown to be about real people to
whom we can all relate.
EASY READING SHAKESPEARE – VOLUME THREE
contains the following plays;
The Merry Wives of Windsor
(read
excerpt)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
(read
excerpt)
King John
Timon of Athens
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Edward the Third
(read excerpt)
The Comedy of Errors
Richard the Second
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Coriolanus
Henry the Sixth – Parts I, II and III
(read
excerpt)
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Cymbeline
Henry the Eighth
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