A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Made Easy Series)

by Alan Durband

Overview

The Shakespeare Made Easy series aims to take the fear out of Shakespeare. By having Shakespearean and Modern English facing each other, pupils will find it easier to comprehend the text. Through discussion of the life, work and theatre of Shakespeare pupils can gain a more rounded understanding of these classic works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748702787
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2014
Series:	Shakespeare Made Easy Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 5.05(h) x 0.52(d)
Age Range:	5 - 11 Years

About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.