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With reading and language declining rapidly in the Digital Age, these books
get students engaging with Shakespeare: reading, discussing and writing
about his plays in the context of their present-day, media-filled lives. Shakespeare becomes useful, interesting and entertaining—the way kids
today need him to be.

Students and teachers can now read Shakespeare’s seven great poetic dramas as prose dramas: the plays complete, scene by scene, with settings, characters and action in story form written by PAUL ILLIDGE, a novelist and playwright who taught and directed Shakespeare for 26 years as both a private and public school English teacher.
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King Lear

Shakespeare’s epic story of a powerful king reduced to “nothing” through stubborn pride and anger, the play shows the lengths to which people both young and old will go to find love and acceptance in what may be an indifferent and hostile universe. The most modern work in classical literature, King Lear focuses on themes that we continue to struggle and cope with in the 21st century: the nature of family, love, identity, truth, and what it really means to be human. 

Trade paper                        $11.95                    138 pages

Macbeth

Shakespeare’s story of horror and the supernatural in which a revered hero turns on the king for whom he’s been fighting because of an encounter with three “weird sisters” who tempt his vanity, pride and ego with an incredible offer which his lonely, sleep-walking wife insists he dare not refuse.

Trade paper                        $10.95             114 pages

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare’s fantasy play about love, marriage, rivalry between the sexes and the generation “gap”, the action unfolds during a moonlight forest adventure where surprise, mistaken identity, jealousy and friendship contend in a cautionary comedic tale about the need to be realistic in dealing with the problems and conflicts we have in relationships.

Trade paper                        $10.95             103 pages

Othello

Shakespeare’s heart-rending tragedy of trust and betrayal, an embittered soldier plots the ruin of the story’s other characters, manipulating them in a vicious scheme of lies and deception that leads them inexorably toward their destruction. This version gives students a window on the play’s most powerful aspect: the remarkable love between the young and innocent Desdemona, and Othello, the African-born warrior general commanding the armies of Venice. 

Trade paper                        $11.95             136 pages

Romeo and Juliet

The gem of romantic love stories, Shakespeare’s play about two love-blind teenagers whose lives are torn asunder by the blind hatred of everyone around them, Romeo and Juliet is known the world over for the way it captures the intensity of adolescent emotion crying out in the face of an adult world that has forgotten its priorities, with consequences that are tragic because they might easily have been avoided.  

Trade paper                        $9.95                        102 pages

Twelfth Night or What You Will

Shakespeare’s most fully realized comedy, set on the Aegean island of Illyria where the Duke Orsino pines for the love of Olivia, who, with her father and only brother now dead, lives in complete seclusion, although she can’t find a moment’s peace with her uncle Sir Toby Belch carousing in her living room night and day with his dim-witted but rich drinking partner—until she falls unexpectedly but hopelessly in love with the young woman (disguised as a man) whom the Duke has sent to woo her, and the snooty Malvolio is hoodwinked into taking matters into his own hands in the belief that, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them!” Trade paper                        $10.95                     108 pages    

Hamlet

The most famous name in literature (19 million Google pages), this is Shakespeare’s murder-mystery in which a passionate son undertakes to find his father’s killer and exact revenge, only to get caught up in the games he sets in motion so he loses his way—so that rather than becoming the instrument of justice, he becomes its victim.

Trade paper   $11.95      128 pages

Book 1: Mr. X and the Circle of Death

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Meet Xerxes Frankel--a bright, precocious 17 year-old who is the hip host of
his own travel show. The first adventure takes him to Paris where, with his
French sidekick, secretly rides down the Eiffel Tower in a match race. His
friend, Octave Pompidou, gets into trouble with a strange street gang and
unusual things begin to happen. All of which is captured on video for the
show.

Perfect for students who like adventure stories. Appropriate for ages 11-16.

Book 2: Mr. X and the Cog Train from Heaven

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Xerxes Frankel, the cool, hip host of his own travel show heads to snowboard
heaven in Lucerne, Switzerland and a professional competition. Xerxes and
his co-host, Ludi Magister--a champion snow boarder, have a run-in with a
strange Swiss nationalist who has peculiar ideas about statehood. They take
the cog train up to Mt. Titlis where strange things begin to happen.

Perfect for students who like adventure stories. Appropriate for ages 11-16.

Book 3: Mr. X and the Rainforest Monkey

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Xerxes Frankel, the cool, hip host of his own travel show, jets to Costa
Rica to hook up with Jasmine Lopez, an environmental activist. While doing
his bit to protect the rainforest, unusual things begin to occur.
Helicopters and strange men appear out of nowhere. Xerxes has a terrifying
encounter with a mono titi monkey. Jasmine disappears and Xerxes combs the country looking for her. All in a day's work for a TV star.

Perfect for students who like adventure stories. Appropriate for ages 11-16.