Twisted tales from Shakespeare

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Twisted tales from Shakespeare book Tales from Shakespeare like all good comedy aims low It works very well with teenagers who are are reading Shakespeare in high school because it makes fun of the very things that they find absurd.

I read this book before I read anything by Shakespeare/5(33). Twisted Tales From Shakespeare Paperback – June 1, by Richard Armour (Author) › Visit Amazon's Richard Armour Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author.

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Twisted Tales from Shakespeare is a collection of spoofed tales/5(26). Twisted Tales from Shakespeare Mass Market Paperback – January 1, by Richard Willard Armour (Author), Campbell Grant (Illustrator) out of 5 stars 31 ratings. See all 7 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions.

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Twisted Tales from Shakespeare [Richard Armour, Campbell Grant] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers/5(31). Not only does this book count down the top ten Shakespeare stories, but between each chapter there are the top ten lists like " Top Ten Shakepearian Actors".

My favorite one was a list of all the people that might have written the plays instead of Shakespeare. You should know that the book doesn't have the real plays, just the summeries and facts/5(11).

Twisted tales from Shakespeare in which Shakespeare's best known plays are presented in a new light, the old light having blown a fuse, together with introductions, questions, appendices, and other critical apparatus intended to contribute to a Pages: Genre/Form: Parodies, imitations, etc: Additional Physical Format: Print version: Armour, Richard, Twisted tales from Shakespeare.

New York: McGraw-Hill. Twisted Tales from Shakespeare by Richard Armour How would you recount the events of Romeo and Juliet to a friend. In this humorous essay, Armour spoofs Shakespeare's drama and provides extra details to enliven this classic story of young love.

Introduction The plot of Romeo and Juliet came to England fromFile Size: 1MB. Title:: Twisted Tales from Shakespeare: Author:: Armour, Richard, Contributor:: Shakespeare, William, Note: New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co.

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Elsa's magic powers don't appear until her parents die. The book builds. Based on the same-titled book by Richard Armour, Twisted Tales From Shakespeare is adapted for the stage and directed by Furman theatre professor Rhett Bryson.

Bryson’s stage adaptation of Armour’s book explores the early days of Shakespeare’s history, the true authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, and the Globe Playhouse. TWISTED TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE.

GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe. Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. A limber litterateur, Mr. Armour, not satisfied with having broken the bare bones of history, here beards the Bard and adds not only mustaches and eyeglasses to Shakespearian characters but many a false none and blackened tooth.

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship.

He was a professor of English at /5. Richard Armour has 59 books on Goodreads with ratings. Richard Armour’s most popular book is Twisted Tales from Shakespeare. As with Richard Armour's book, 'Classics Reclassified', this was a book I read many years ago when I found it in the school library.

Very funny (to a young teenager) and irreverent, 'Twisted Tales of Shakespeare' became a favourite which I borrowed a number of times.

I learned quite a lot about Shakespeare's plays while reading these for my 5/5(2). - Buy Twisted Tales from Shakespeare book online at best prices in India on Read Twisted Tales from Shakespeare book reviews & author details and more at Free delivery on qualified orders/5(10).

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LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers It's hard to rate this book, because what I remember it to be is so much better than what it actually is.

I had a middle-school teacher who would read these twisted tales to the class and I thought they were /5(6).18 quotes from Richard Armour: 'That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye', 'Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.', and 'Shake and shake the catsup bottle.

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