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Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers

E. Nesbit & William Shakespeare

First published 2006
Publisher Dover Publications
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art Charles Folkard
Pages 80
Price $4.95
ISBN 0486447626

  • 12 stories; namely, the stories of 12 Shakespeare plays retold for children by Nesbit
  • Appropriate "particularly for very young children" --Kirkus Reviews 1938-08-01 (posted online 2012 with later cover image and ISBN) Probably Kirkus reviews a re-issue of the 1900 collection, but it does list only 11 of the 12 retellings --those in the 12-story 2006 Dover collection except "The Merchant of Venice".
  • "This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a newly reset, unabridged republication of the text from The Children's Shakespeare, originally published by Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1900. The original illustrations have been omitted here." --Bibliographical Note, 2006 (viewed as Amazon "Look inside")

  • 12 stories Contents listed below (4) are those those stories with speculative fiction content. Other stories (8) are retellings of: As You Like It; Cymbeline; King Lear; Pericles; Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew; and Twelfth Night.
  • Data from Amazon.com 2017-03-03 with "Look Inside!": • Bibliographical Note "This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a newly reset, unabridged republication of the text from The Children's Shakespeare, originally published by Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1900. The original illustrations have been omitted here." • Introduction, p1-2 • back cover gives prices $4.95 C$7.50 and identifies front cover: "Robin Goodfellow from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Charles Folkard illustration, 1910"

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