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Informationen zum Autor Emily Sutton graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in illustration. She is the illustrator of Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes , Many: The Diversity of Life on Earth , Grow: Secrets of Our DNA , and A First Book of the Sea , all by Nicola Davies, as well as The Christmas Eve Tree by Delia Huddy and Betty and the Mysterious Visitor by Anne Twist. In addition to illustrating picture books, she paints, sculpts, and designs prints. Emily Sutton lives in England. Follow her on Instagram @EmilySuttonArtist. Klappentext Four hundred years after its publication, Shakespeare's First Folio has found a brand-new crop of enthusiasts. This gorgeous collection comprises all the plays in the original volume -- fourteen comedies, ten histories, and twelve tragedies -- each edited so it can be performed by eight to twelve children age seven and up in under twenty minutes. Leseprobe To the Reader To read or not to read this book? It’s in your hands, so take a look. The plays by gentle Shakespeare here With pictures through each play appear For you and friends to laugh, to cry, To sink in thought, to wonder why. For you will find on every page The lives of us in every age; And though the Folio ’s a fact, Our aim’s to give you plays to act. Michael Rosen Introduction Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies arrived in London bookstalls in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death. Compiled by his friends and fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, it collected together, for the first time, thirty-six of Shakespeare’s plays, which subsequently became known as the First Folio to distinguish it from later editions. Heminges and Condell wanted to send Shakespeare’s plays out into the world in the most magnificent way they could: “folio” refers to its size, and this was a large book, carefully set, intricately printed, with dedicatory poems and a large picture of Shakespeare at the front. This was the first time such a book of plays had entered the market and it was an ambitious project. Only half of the plays had been previously printed, in smaller, individual editions called “quartos”, which again refers to their size. None of the original scripts survive today, and it is amazing to think that without the First Folio , at least eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays, including The Tempest, Twelfth Night and Macbeth , would have been lost for ever. The book that you hold in your hand is a tribute to the enterprise of John Heminges and Henry Condell and follows the order in which they set out Shakespeare’s plays. Like the original First Folio , it also includes a dedicatory verse by the poet and children’s author Michael Rosen, and a wonderful new portrait of William Shakespeare by Emily Sutton. Making a book has never been a simple task, and this edition, with over four hundred pages, thirty-six plays and more than three hundred illustrated characters, is testament to weeks and months of collaboration between so many talented, dedicated individuals. More than that, it helps to demonstrate the sheer scale and ambition of the publication of Shakespeare’s plays four hundred years ago. There are very few adaptations of Shakespeare’s works for young readers that use his language, and that can be performed and explored just like the plays on which they’re based. We have adapted all thirty-six of the plays in the First Folio to be performed by small groups in a short amount of time, using almost entirely Shakespeare’s original language. From the popular Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the famously overlooked King John and Coriolan...
