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    Children's Stories From Shakespeare
    Children's Stories From Shakespeare
    Children's Stories From Shakespeare
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    Children's Stories From Shakespeare

    By E. Nesbit and John H. Bacon

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    Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPook Press
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9781528782067
    Children's Stories From Shakespeare
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    E. Nesbit

    E. Nesbit (1858–1924) began writing for young adults after a successful career in magazines. Using her own unconventional childhood as a jumping-off point, she published novels that combined reality, fantasy, and humor. Expanded from a series of articles in the Strand Magazine, Five Children and It was published as a novel in 1902 and is the first in a trilogy that includes The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Story of the Amulet. Together with her husband, Nesbit was a founding member of the socialist Fabian Society, and her home became a hub for some of the greatest authors and thinkers of the time, including George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells.

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      Children's Stories From Shakespeare - E. Nesbit

      HOW THE STORIES WERE WRITTEN.

      IT was evening. The fire burned brightly in the inn parlour. We had been that day to see Shakespeare’s house, and I had told the children all that I could about him and his work. Now they were sitting by the table, poring over a big volume of the Master’s plays, lent them by the landlord. And I, with eyes fixed on the fire, was wandering happily in the immortal dreamland peopled by Rosalind and Imogen, Lear and Hamlet. A small sigh roused me—

      I can’t understand a word of it, said Iris.

      And you said it was so beautiful, Rosamund added, reproachfully. What does it all mean?

      Yes, Iris went on, you said it was a fairy tale, and we’ve read three pages, and there’s nothing about fairies, nor even a dwarf, or a fairy god-mother.

      And what does ‘misgraffed’ mean?

      And ‘vantage,’ and ‘austerity,’ and ‘belike,’ and ‘edict’, and—

      Stop, stop, I cried; I will tell you the story.

      In a moment they were nestling beside me, cooing with the pleasure that the promise of a story always brings them.

      But you must be quiet a moment, and let me think.

      In truth it was not easy to arrange the story simply. Even with the recollection of Lamb’s tales to help me I found it hard to tell the Midsummer Night’s Dream in words that these little ones could understand. But presently I began the tale, and then the words came fast enough. When the story was ended, Iris drew a long breath.

      It is a lovely story, she said; but it doesn’t look at all like that in the book.

      It is only put differently, I answered. You will understand when you grow up that the stories are the least part of Shakespeare.

      "But it’s the stories we like," said Rosamund.

      You see he did not write for children.

      No, but you might, cried Iris, flushed with a sudden idea. Why don’t you write the stories for us so that we can understand them, just as you told us that, and then, when we are grown up, we shall understand the plays so much better. Do! do!.

      "Ah, do! You will, won’t you? You must!"

      Oh, well, if I must, I must, I said.

      And so they settled it for me, and for them these tales were written.

      PROSPERO, the Duke of Milan, was a learned and studious man, who lived among his books, leaving the management of his dukedom to his brother Antonio, in whom indeed he had complete trust. But that trust was ill-rewarded, for Antonio wanted to wear the Duke’s crown himself, and, to gain his ends, would have killed his brother but for the love the people bore him. However, with the help of Prospero’s great enemy, Alonso, King of Naples, he managed to get into his hands the dukedom with all its honour, power, and riches. For they took Prospero to sea, and when they were far away from land, forced him into a little boat with no tackle, mast or sail. In their cruelty and hatred they put his little daughter, Miranda (not yet three years old), into the boat with him, and sailed away, leaving them to their fate.

      But one among the courtiers with Antonio was true to his rightful master, Prospero. To save the Duke from his enemies was impossible, but much could be done to remind him of a subject’s love. So this worthy lord, whose name was Gonzalo, secretly placed in the boat some fresh water, provisions and clothes, and what Prospero valued most of all, some of his precious

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