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Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's The Tempest Steve Barlow

Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's The Tempest By Steve Barlow

Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's The Tempest by Steve Barlow


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Shakespeare's The Tempest like you've never seen it - or read it - before, in pitch-perfect graphic novel form

Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's The Tempest Summary

Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's The Tempest: A Graphic Novel by Steve Barlow

Shakespeare's The Tempest like you've never seen it - or read it - before!

Classics in Graphics: The Tempest has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, with illustrations by Edu Coll. The fantastical revenge story is a swirling delight on the page - as Prospero conducts the story to his desired end.

Classics in Graphics is a series of graphic novels for children aged 10 plus that has inclusion at its heart, flinging wide the doors of literature for everyone to enter and understand. Including dyslexia-friendly design on every page, and encouraging readers to relate to these iconic roles - casting spells, falling in love and winning duels.

Each graphic novel includes pitch-perfect illustrations for presenting the tragic, the romantic, the comedic, the magical, as well as:

- snappy simplified text presenting Shakespeare's themes clearly
- introductory materials to help set the scene and context of each story
- heaps of extra material at the back to keep the learning and fun going, including an exploration of themes in the play, the language, Shakespeare's inspirations, the publication and performance of the play in history, a timeline of Shakespeare's life and works, and much more!

Plays available in the series include:
Macbeth
The Tempest
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing

Praise for the Classics in Graphics series:
Excellent production and binding, quality paper, and with fantastic writing and illustrations - an encouraging entry point to Shakespeare for my kids, and ease of dive-in for my own flighting or cursory storytelling engagement/whimsy [...] an excellent job converting challenging language and literary themes to make it very inclusive, smoothing ease of understanding dialogue, plot, and narration without dumbing it down. Each book has a wonderful appendix including notes on Shakespeare, relevant maps and themes (i.e. for example in Hamlet it goes deeper into its themes of Revenge, Madness & Mortality), and a glossary. For a graphic novel adaptation, I think these books are delightful. [...] They are wonderful and have quickly broken down the wall of fear of Shakespeare in my house as they are so easy to read and engage. And they have a really nice tactile production value, heft, and readability that makes broaching these often deemed difficult works, FUN. And of course, they are nice to look at. - EricWilliamson, www.leagueofcomicgeeks.com

About Steve Barlow

Steve Barlow (Author)
As 50% of the Two Steves, Steve Barlow has written over 160 books with Steve Skidmore since their first published work appeared in 1988. Born in Crewe, he was educated at Crewe Grammar School, Warwick University and Nottingham University before a varied career in teaching, acting, stage management and puppetry. He worked in a village school in Botswana for four years before returning to the UK and working with Steve Skidmore. The Two Steves tour extensively in the UK and overseas, and are frequent visitors to book festivals including Edinburgh and Hay. Their work for Hachette includes the highly popular I Hero and Crime Team choose-your-adventure books, and their I Horror series is raising the short hairs at the back of readers' necks with Orchard Books.



Steve Skidmore (Author)
Steve Skidmore writes with Steve Barlow. Together they are Britain's most popular comedy writing and performing double act for young people. Not surprisingly, they are known as The 2 Steves!

The 2 Steves met over twenty years ago when they were both teaching in Nottingham. Since then they have written over 160 books together. They have also acted as series editors on numerous reading programmes for several major publishing houses.

The 2 Steves are in great demand for author visits to schools, colleges and libraries across the world. They also undertake INSET events and make regular appearances at Literary Festivals.

Steve Skidmore is shorter than Steve Barlow and less hairy. He was born in Birstall near Leicester in England. After managing to pass some exams at school, he went on to Nottingham University to supposedly read English, but spent most of his time playing sport and doing a variety of summer jobs including counting pastry pie lids (yes, really).

He trained as a teacher of Drama, English and Film studies, before teaming up with Steve Barlow to become a full time author.

He lives in Leicester and is a great rugby fan (he supports Leicester Tigers - Come on you Tiiiiigeeeers!).



Eduard Coll (Illustrator)
As a little boy, Edu was always drawing and painting his favorite anime characters, and then his mother put him in an art academy in his town, where all the adults there were his inspiration. He graduated from Animation and Video games in CEV Barcelona in 2016 and later from illustration in Escola Joso in 2019. Edu then embarked on his career as a professional illustrator. He likes to read books and comics, watch films and TV shows, and check all the new things about his favorite artists, where he can find all his inspiration. In the end, Edu would like to someday have a cat.

Table of Contents

  • 1: William Shakespeare: The Man, the Actor, the Author
  • 1: The Tempest - The Play
  • 1: The Tempest
    • 2: List of Main Characters: Dramatis Personae
    • 2: Act One
    • 2: Act Two
    • 2: Act Three
    • 2: Act Four
    • 2: Act Five
  • 1: Storytelling in The Tempest
  • 1: Themes in The Tempest
  • 1: Shakespeare's Language
  • 1: Fun Facts
  • 1: Publication
  • 1: Book Fact
  • 1: Performing the Play!
  • 1: Deadly Serious Fact
  • 1: The Theatre
  • 1: Glossary
  • 1: Shakespeare Timeline

Additional information

NGR9781445180021
9781445180021
1445180022
Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's The Tempest: A Graphic Novel by Steve Barlow
New
Hardback
Hachette Children's Group
2022-09-08
112
N/A
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