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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1340L
Language
English
Description
An edition of Shakespeare's comedy, including discussion of its plot, characters, themes, language, production, and author. Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeare's intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which is considered more authoritative, and the ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts with as few alterations as possible....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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Description
A prose retelling of William Shakespeare's play about the strange events that take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically transform the romantic fate of two young couples.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Collects eight classic theatrical whodunnits, including mysteries surrounding the fatal reunion of two lovers, an act of kindness that leads to a charge of murder, and the daughter of a murderess investigating her mother's case.
Author
Lexile measure
1380L
Language
English
Description
Antonio, the merchant in The Merchant of Venice, secures a loan from Shylock for his friend Bassanio, who seeks to court Portia. Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, recalls past insults from Antonio and, instead of asking interest on the loan, asks instead--in what he calls a "merry sport"--That if the loan is not repaid, Antonio will owe a pound of his own flesh. Bassanio sails to Belmont, where the wealthy heiress Portia is being courted by suitors from...
9) Plays for modern teen-age actors: a collection of one-act comedies, farces, dramas, and melodramas
Author
Publisher
Plays, Inc
Pub. Date
[Ã1971]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen one-act plays include a spoof of the Cinderella story, a melodrama about women's liberation, and a comic melodrama of the Old West. Includes production notes.
14) The Big book of comedies: 25 one-act plays, skits, curtain raisers, and adaptations for young people
Publisher
Plays, Incorporated
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-five dramatic pieces, including one-acts, skits, curtain raisers, and adaptations, for ages from the middle grades through high school.
15) Twelfth night
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
16) Beetlejuice
Language
English
Formats
Description
A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in.
Author
Publisher
S. French
Pub. Date
[Ã1954]
Language
English
Description
In a stunning courtroom drama, a scheming wife testifies agaist her husband during a shocking murder trial ...
A psychopathic murderer homes in on unsuspecting victims in a seaside house, perched high on a cliff ...
A young woman discovers that her mother was imprisoned for murdering her father 16 years before, and so determines to prove her dead mother's innocence ...
Passion, murder and love combine in one of Christie's more unusual thrillers,...
Series
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
You won't believe what's happening around town these days -- Whit's End has a mysterious link to Odyssey's Civil War days, Jack and Erica are finding new ways to serve the community, and Jason has installed a program in the Imagination Station that makes for some interesting complications!