Romeo and Juliet (Picture This! Shakespeare) - Softcover

Page, Philip; Petit, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764131443 ISBN 13: 9780764131448

Publisher: Barrons Educational Series, 2005

Synopsis

Perhaps the most famous of all romantic tragedies, this is the tale of two young star-crossed lovers and their families, who are caught in a destructive web of hatred.

Shakespeare’s immortal dramas are now available in illustrated form for classroom use! This revolutionary way of introducing the timeless comedies and tragedies of the Bard of Avon combines the art form of the graphic novel with written passages taken directly from Shakespeare’s texts.

Children first studying Shakespeare are sometimes intimidated by the difficulty of his language. They will often miss the excitement and suspense in his story lines and the fascination of the wonderful characters he has created. Approaching his plays in the form of graphic-novel-style picture stories, supplemented with excerpts from the original dialogue, can be a young student’s important first step in truly understanding and appreciating Shakespeare’s masterpieces. Preceding the action of each play, these books offer brief summaries explaining what the play is all about, followed by illustrated casts of characters, each character shown with a brief descriptive caption. Supplementing each title in this series is a separately available teacher’s guide that suggests topics for classroom discussion and advises on imaginative activities that fit the classroom environment and coincide with the five acts of each play.

About this title

From the Back Cover

[back cover]


Picture This!


Shakespeare


William Shakespeare’s


Romeo and Juliet



The bodies of two young lovers lie in a cold tomb.


One has been stabbed and the other poisoned.


It is less than a week since they first met . . .



Picture This! Shakespeare Titles Currently Available from Barron’s—


Macbeth * A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Romeo and Juliet * Twelfth Night

Reviews

Gr. 8-11. Most of Shakespeare's original text is here, along with notes about literary devices, glosses on idioms, and study questions, which appear at appropriate points in the text. On many pages the dialogue is delivered by cartoon characters rendered in black and white and attired in period dress. Their well-imagined body language and facial expressions make the text more understandable. Other pages use boxes to present straight text. Traditional line numbers and specifics about elisions in the text are not presented, but this still makes a good alternative for students reading the tragedy to themselves for the first time. Other titles in the new series, including Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream, edited by the same team and illustrated again by Page, prove the series as a reliable new approach to introducing Shakespeare; characters are nicely individualized, and the texts read smoothly on both the illustrated and the traditionally presented text pages. Francisca Goldsmith
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Edition details

• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764131443
• ISBN 13: 9780764131448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64