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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Featuring the images of some of the world's most famous stage and film actors, these additions to the all-new Oxford School Shakespeare introduce--and enthrall--young people to one of the greatest writers of all time. This season brings revised editions of five of the Bard's most famous plays--As You Like It, Othello, Hamlet, Love's Labour Lost and The Taming of the Shrew. Designed specifically for students unfamiliar with Shakespeare's rich literary...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Love's Labours Lost - William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to forswear the company of women for three years of study and fasting, and their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies. In...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio's marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an apparently ideal woman. Petruchio's wooing of Katherine, however, is free of idealism. Petruchio takes money from Bianca's suitors to woo her, since Katherine must marry before her sister by her father's decree; he also arranges the dowry with her father. Petruchio is then ready to marry Katherine, even...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Features a newly edited text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare's comedy of love, magic, and transformation; and provides an introduction, commentary, detailed notes, an account of the play as it would be performed in Shakespeare's theaters, and an essay on how to read Shakespeare's language."--
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