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A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular comedies of the legendary playwright, William Shakespeare. The play revolves around Hermia and her best friend, Helena. Hermia runs away into the woods with her lover, Lysander, and Demetrius, the man of her father's choice, follows them. Helena follows Demetrius, as she is in love with him and wishes she could win his love. In the woods, they come across Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the...
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays.
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The New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays provides accurate texts in modern spelling and punctuation, as well as scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, many pictures clarifying Shakespeare's language, and notes recording all significant departures from the early printed versions. The play is prefaced by a brief introduction, by a guide to reading Shakespeare's language, and by accounts of his life and theater, followed...
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One of Shakespeare's finest works is available in a new edition, based on the best early printed version of the play. This new edition of Othello reflects the latest scholarship and includes information on Shakespeare's life, explanatory notes, and a Modern Perspective section. Illustrated.
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One of Shakespeare s most robust comedies, The Taming of the Shrew, is about Katherine, the ill-tempered daughter of a wealthy merchant in Padua. Katherine is so petulant that her father always believed no man would ever want her as his wife. However, Petruchio, a rich young man, comes into Katherine s life and brings about a great change in her behaviour. This short narrative version of the play has been suitably adapted to help introduce the play...
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Macbeth is one of the darkest tragedies of William Shakespeare. The play revolves around a power-hungry Scottish lord, Macbeth, and his lady, who conspire to kill King Duncan. After Duncan's death, Macbeth ascends the throne, only to be consumed by guilt, panic and paranoia, which ultimately lead him to his doom. This short narrative version of the play has been suitably adapted to help introduce the play to young readers. It can be read by children...
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Act out the story of Johnny Appleseed, a man who journeyed across the Western frontier and planted apple seeds along the way, with this engaging Reader's Theater script! The roles in this script match different reading levels, allowing teachers to use differentiation and English language learner strategies to get all students participating in the activity. Regardless of their reading level, all students can be engaged in the activity, making them...
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Until 1957, two worlds existed in Little Rock, Arkansas: one for white Americans and another for African Americans. Whites and blacks went to separate schools, ate at separate restaurants, and even used separate drinking fountains. That year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to end the laws that kept people apart. Nine black students agreed to attend Little Rock's all-white Central High School. But could they face angry mobs, threats, and violence?...
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Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for an adaptation of a fairy tale in which Henrietta Hen is hit by a falling apple and assumes the worst, rushing to tell Farmer Jones. On the way, she convinces other animals to join her, and even farmyard security can't stop them from entering the forest.
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Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for an adaptation of a fairy tale in which Rapunzel is teased when she has to have a servant carry her yards and yards of golden braids and has to ride to school in a horse-drawn coach rather than on the school bus with all her friends.
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Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for an adaptation of a fairy tale in which Princess Elizabeth is cursed by the evil Fairy Esmeralda with a modification by Fairy Lily such that if Elizabeth pricks her finger on a spindle she will sleep until she is wakened by her true love's kiss.
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Explains what is needed to put on a play, and provides the script for an adaptation of a fairy tale in which Queen Patricia invites all the princesses whose names begin with "P" to the palace to find just the right wife for her son Peter, but Peter falls in love with Princess Rose.
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The show must go on! The Princess and the Frog is a fractured fairy tale based on the story of the princess and the frpg. When the princess loses her ball in the well, a helpful frog is willing to get it for her-for a price! But the kiss doesn't cause the traditional transformation. This book provides information on putting on a production-including tips on sets, props, and costumes. An easy-to-follow script with color coding for character cues is...
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Celebrate Halloween with a play! What's the best thing about Halloween? Will and Kyrsten would say candy. But James and Emma would say getting scared! Just in time for the spooky holiday, the old Miller mansion has a new resident. Is it a ghost? or a Ghoul? Or something none of the kids could even imagine? Discover everything you need to put a readers' theatre, advanced readers' theater, or full production with this guide and readers' theater script....
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