Tempest, The |
Publication Information
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Author: Shakespeare, William (retold by Coville, Brice) |
Illustrator: Sanderson, Ruth |
Title: Tempest, The |
Date: 1994 |
Publisher: Doubleday |
City: New York, NY |
ISBN, paperback: 0-385-32056-6 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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Family:
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
drama
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HSE Descriptor(s):
language arts - reading
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Summary: |
This is a prose retelling of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, a story of an exiled Duke and his daughter during their stay on an enchanted island. The book ends with an author's note. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This book may serve as a good introduction to William Shakespeare. GED teachers may want students to read an act of the play (or all of it) and read this as accompaniment. Teachers may want students to work on enlarging their vocabularies with this text, looking for clues to the meanings of the words by examining the contexts. (For example, Can you guess at what a guise and harpy are from these clues? "Ariel swooped to the table in the guise of a harpy . . . the harpy clapped its brazen wings. . .")
Text of play: www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316Kfall/316Ktexts/tempestcast.html; study guide: www.allshakespeare.com/plays/tempest/tn.shtml |
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