Stories from Shakespeare [Paperback]

InStories from Shakespeare, Marchette Chute opens wide the gateway to the most varied and glorious world ever created by one man. Her retellings of all thirty-six First Folio plays are superbly lucid. It is not Ms. Chute's purpose to provide a substitute for these immortal comedies, tragedies, and histories; rather she seeks to provide the modern reader with essential insight into Shakespeare's narrative genius, clarifying the intricacies of plot and sharply delineating a host of characters, major and minor alike. This she does with surpassing grace and unobtrusive scholarship, closely following the sequence of onstage action and illuminating it with choice quotations and perceptive comments.The New Yorkerhas termed this work a beautifully done job. Introduction

The Comedies
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
As You Like It
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
All's Well That Ends Well
Measure for Measure
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest

The Tragedies
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
Othello
Macbeth
King Lear
Timon of Athens
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline

The Histories
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part One
Henry IV, Part Two
Henry V
Henry VI, Part One
Henry VI, Part Two
Henry VI, Part Three
Richard III
Henry VIII