Early praise for Shakespeare with Children: Six Scripts for Young Players

"As retold narrative stories for children, there's no better source than Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare, which many teachers adapt for classroom productions through improvisation and reader's theatre techniques. In this volume, Elizabeth Weinstein goes many steps further by actually condensing several of Shakespeare's most beloved three-hour plays to a slick 40 minutes each. Without removing important plot elements, she successfully combines short narrative pieces with heavily edited but genuine Shakespearean language."

November 2008, Backstage, Tom Provenzano.  Full review is available here.

"It's never too early to introduce children to the greatness that is Shakespeare's theatre. Shakespeare with Children: Six Scripts for Young Players is a collection of six scripts adapted and abridged for children between the ages of eight and thirteen; each can be executed in roughly forty minutes of stage time, while retaining the heart and soul of the stories as well as the bard's original poetic language. "Shakespeare with Children" is a must for any drama teacher looking to impart something special.”

August 2008, Children’s Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review, Oregon, WI. Editor in Chief Jim Cox. www.midwestbookreview.com.

"You have something that teachers in Colorado will find useful, and I will gladly recommend it to my contacts in the school system."

Amanda Holden, Education Programs Manager

Featured on the website of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival www.coloradoshakes.org/education

“....a delightful and useful volume. In addition to classroom use, [Shakespeare with Children] could easily be a meaningful entertainment on Family Nights, leading to important discussions on serious human issues...The appendices are also very helpful in humanizing Shakespeare and explaining to children something about his life and times.”

Amazon customer review

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