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Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West) Review

Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West)
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These are the best dark comedy plays I have ever seen. The true west is a work of art. All of these plays are top of the line. Dark comedy at it's best. If you are an actor, or just interested in the arts I suggest this book. You won't find this many well written plays in one book in a long time. Sam Shepard is a true genius.

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Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre.And here are seven of his very best."One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today."—The New Yorker"The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society."—New York Magazine"If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard."—Time"Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage."—Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of ‘Night, Mother."One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape."—Newsweek"His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and inscrutable."—Esquire"Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright."—The New Republic

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Simply Shakespeare: Readers Theatre for Young People Review

Simply Shakespeare: Readers Theatre for Young People
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It's okay, but I expected more of Shakespeare's original language and style to be incorporated into the reader's texts. I know it's intended for younger kids and I like that there's some summary and that the plays make the story very clear. It's also nice that they're so concise and that so many texts are included. However, there's absolutely no sense of Shakespeare's style in the plays. Even famous lines that kids might have heard referenced before have mostly been translated into more modern language. Not bad, but could have been better.

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This collection of scripts includes readers theatre scripts based on Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and romances. Each script includes a summary, presentation suggestions, and a character list.



You don't have to look any further to find the best of the Bard! From misalliances and misadventures to romance and comedy, students can explore the wonderful world of Shakespeare through Readers Theatre. This unique collection of 13 scripts from Weekly Reader's Read magazine features age-appropriate play adaptations from some of Shakespeare's greatest and best-known works. Magnificently preserving the flavor of Shakespeare's writings, the language has been modernized so that young readers can easily grasp and appreciate the characters and the plot. Each script is accompanied by a summary, presentation suggestions, and a character list.



The scripts can be used independently (for stand-alone performances) or as precursors to classroom units on Shakespeare (e.g., in conjunction with reading or viewing one of Shakespeare's plays in its original version).

Plays include:

 As You Like It

 Hamlet

 Julius Caesar

 King Lear

 Macbeth

 A Midsummer Night's Dream

 The Merchant of Venice

 Much Ado About Nothing

 Othello^L^DBL Romeo and Juliet

 The Taming of the Shrew

 The Tempest

 Twelfth Night



Grades 6-12


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