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OverviewEnd your struggle with the Bard's prose and appreciate his comedy about the trials and tribulations of love. Shakespeare on the Double! A Midsummer Night's Dream includes an easy-to-understand modern English translation alongside the original Shakespearian text so that you can read only the translation, read the translation with the original text, or tackle the original text, referring only to the translation when you're stumped. A comprehensive character list describes the traits of each major character, a visual map depicts relationships, and review questions reinforce important information so you won't miss the action. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Shakespeare , Mary Ellen SnodgrassPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.180kg ISBN: 9780470212721ISBN 10: 0470212721 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 01 June 2008 Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Secondary Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsOf late many classic titles - including the Bible - have been turned into manga, in a 21st-century version of the venerable Classics Illustrated comics. This take on the Bard boils his play down to approximately 20 words per page, drastically abridging the text, though keeping intact the original language and meter. A fully colored dramatis personae reduces the characters to sound bites and shines in comparison to the flat, gray-toned images that murkily tell the story itself. As drawn by Brown, the characters are decidedly more Western-looking in their styling than is typical to most manga, and the adaptor's choice of setting is an anachronistic mishmash of quasi-antique and modern, a choice that will leave sophisticated readers knowledgeable with the text slightly puzzled. The Tempest (ISBN: 978-0-8109-9476-8), drawn by Paul Duffield, follows an identical template. These attempts to convert Shakespeare into visual language fall flat, although the slick manga styling alone may attract some new readers to these works. (plot summary, author's biography) (Graphic fiction. 13 & up) (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationMary Ellen Snodgrass is an award-winning author of textbooks and general reference works, and a former columnist for the Charlotte Observer . A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Appalachian State University, and holds degrees in English, Latin, psychology, and the education of gifted children. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |