Shakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand…but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!
Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.
Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phrase, each befuddling reference. Never get stuck on Shakespeare’s language again! A perfect guide for actors, students and the inquisitive, Shakespeare Retold breathes new life into the most intoxicating, beguiling and often frustrating words in the English language.
If music be the food of love, play on;
If music is the fuel of love, play on!
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
Play tunes aplenty till I’ve heard too much,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
And then these pangs will pale and fade away.
That strain again! it had a dying fall.
Play that refrain again; I found it haunting.
About the author
James Anthony is an award-winning, multi-genre author from London, England. With a keen eye, sharp wit, and poetic irreverence, he retold all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets in modern verse, published by Penguin Random House in 2018. Described by Stephen Fry as ‘a dazzling success, ‘ he continues to retell the Bard’s greatest plays in his popular ‘Shakespeare Retold’ series. When not tackling the Bard, Anthony is an offbeat travel writer, documenting his trips in his ‘Slow Road’ series, earning him the moniker the English Bill Bryson.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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