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Contact: Linda F. Radke, Five Star Publications (480) 940-8182
What’s more than 400 years old yet brand-new to today’s children?
The works of William Shakespeare!
Four centuries after they first appeared, William Shakespeare’s perceptive insights into the human condition still speak to us. Educators base important components of their curricula on the Bard’s canon and home libraries throughout the world are lined with his works. Shakespeare’s works are as relevant and as inspirational today as they were when audiences first paid a penny to attend his plays. Teachers will tell you it is truly a magical moment when students discover the beauty and messages of his plays.
The introduction of Shakespeare, however, is not an easy task. Sometimes the magic can use a little assistance.
With the help of the Sixty-Minute Shakespeare series, teachers, librarians, students and parents find easily accessible help in appreciating and understanding the Bard’s plays. In this series, his plays have been streamlined for today’s classroom and home introduction. Authored by Professor of Theatre, Cass Foster this series maintains Shakespeare’s rich language and provides liberal footnotes for a quick explanation of unfamiliar words and phrases.
With the Sixty-Minute Shakespeare series, readers of all ages are assured of gaining a clear understanding of the most widely staged and studied playwright in history!
Foster, a professor of theatre at Central Arizona College provides abridged scripts (each an average 70 pages—approximately an hour’s worth of performance time) with practical suggestions for staging, pacing, and thematic exploration.
Using the Sixty-Minute Shakespeare series, readers in all 50 states, every Canadian provinces, and in 45 other countries have discovered the wonderful sense of achievement that comes from successfully studying and staging a play by Shakespeare. Educators the world over are praising this series for delivering the material within the constraints of class time, budget and students’ attention spans. Parents, educators and librarians not schooled in Shakespeare no longer fear teaching, introducing or recommending his works:
As our Education Outreach department at Colorado Shakespeare Festival is dedicated to enlightening teachers and students (and the community at large) about Shakespeare’s works—using a “hands-on” philosophy—I have found the Five Star Shakespeare collection an incredible resource. ~ Melinda J. Scott, Education Director, Colorado Shakespeare FestivalFor more information about ordering this remarkable series, please contact Linda F. Radke, Five Star Publications, (480) 940-8182.
Want to ease kids into reading full-length Shakespeare? The Sixty-Minute Shakespeare series offers fast-paced condensations of six Shakespeare classics. Rather than retell, the series preserves the original play format and the Bard's language, while providing excellent footnotes to archaic words. It's a smart stepping stone to the real thing. ~ NEA Today
SPECIAL OFFER for LIBRARIANS and TEACHERS: Buy the full set of eight books in our Shakespeare books, and receive a 25% discount on your order! That’s all eight books, regularly $98.84, and all you pay is $74.13!
Contact: Linda F. Radke, Five Star Publications (480) 940-8182
The Sixty- Minute Shakespeare series:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream * Hamlet * Romeo & Juliet * Twelfth Night * Macbeth * Much Ado about Nothing
plus
Shakespeare for Children: The Story of Romeo & Juliet
and
Shakespeare: To Teach or Not to Teach
www.60MinuteShakespeare.com and www.LittleFiveStar.com
Five Star Publications, Inc.
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Distributed by Ingram and Baker & Taylor
Web site: http://www.Shakespirit.com
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ISBN 09619853-3-X
$ 14.95
Published by Five Star Publications, Inc.
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Other related books that you might enjoy:
Shakespeare: To Teach or Not To Teach
The Sixty-Minute Shakespeare
