William Shakespeare
2) Othello
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Series
Language
English
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
3) Macbeth
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English
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2024 OSF Season
Classics with YA Pairs
Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2019
Say "Hello" to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Collection!
Classics with YA Pairs
Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2019
Say "Hello" to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Collection!
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
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English
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The Taming of the Shrew (1592) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. Written between 1590 and 1592, The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest works. Frequently critiqued by scholars for its demeaning portrayal of Katherina and for Petruchio's violence, the play has also been considered as an ironic treatment of the inequality experienced by women in marriage. The Taming of the Shrew has served as source material for countless film and...
9) Macbeth
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015?
Language
English
Description
Three witches and a bloody prophecy send a king's army general down an increasingly violent path as Macbeth seeks to kill King Duncan and claim the throne for himself.
10) King Lear
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1974
Language
English
Description
A New York Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters.
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Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2001]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Mark Antony, the once-heralded leader who, though married to Fulvia of the Roman Empire, becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, living a life of decadence and conducting an affair with Queen Cleopatra of Egypt.