If you are looking to show a child the great work of Shakespeare, I highly recommend this book! It provides you with seven of Shakespeare's greatest tales and simplifies it so that they can understand the often difficult language he uses. The illustrations also help with imagery that is vital to any story. ( )

Quite an amusing concept: presents seven Shakespearean plays in bande dessinée format. The book itself represents the Globe Theatre with the plays on centre stage and Elizabethan spectators crowding the margins (the groundlings being, of course, at the bottom of the page) commenting on the action. Thus each performance has three simultaneous parts: the words, the visual spectacle, and the "famously rude and noisy" audience that surrounds us. I'm not sure that it completely works, but the author/illustrator gets full marks for imagination! ( )

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