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Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page. All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. These invaluable teaching-study guides also include:
1.Helpful background information that puts each play in its historical perspective.
2.Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers.
3.Fact quizzes, sample examinations, and other features that improve student comprehension of what each play is about.
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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April 28, 2008: I think this is a great book because it does not only show the original play, but it shows a 'modernized' version of it also. It is acually side by side. The modernized version doesn't take away from the fasinating and exciting original. I highly recommened this book if you are trying to read shakepear.
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January 15, 2005: It's a very good play and not hard to understand at all with the new version, but it's not the same without reading the old version first, which is much better!