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Shakespeare Made Easy

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How do you take a class of kids to a Shakespeare play and stay sane? One approach, especially useful if you haven't the time or the ability (i.e. books unavailable or assigned to another grade)to go over the play in depth is to give the students the "cartoon version." That way they know where the plot is going and are not put off by or lost in the dense Elizabethan language. This book has twelve frequently studied plays cartooned out in friendly silly little dogs. (The author can draw nothing else but dachshunds!) The book is reproducible. You buy right to copy a class set of each of the plays, which as they're all done in black line, xerox rather well. It's a useful teaching tool for introducing the play, testing the play (blank out the captions and have the students put them in) or reviewing a play you or your spouse is rusty on.

This is a really helpful book for high school teachers of English. The students enjoy the pictures...of course! They're dachshunds!...and they appreciate the concise summaries of the plays.

It's helpful for honors students, regular ed. students, and special ed. students!

Thanks for creating this book.

If you've ever been thinking of one of Shakespeare's major plays (a dozen are included here) and can't quite bring to mind one of the character names or plot twists, this book will give you the information you need in minutes. Or if you love dachshunds and want to see them portrayed by someone who genuinely loves them and is genuinely witty, then you can enjoy this book even if you know nothing of Shakespeare and care less. It may have been published as a tool for teachers, but it deserves to be a crossover classic.