This atmospheric retelling of the magical and hilarious tale of confused lovers, pedantic actors and jealous fairies captures the heightened emotion of Shakespeare's classic of English literature. Echoing the language of the original it makes an ideal introduction to the play for all readers new to Shakespeare. Newly illustrated with striking black-and-white illustrations, tthis retelling was previously published in the collections SHAKESPEARE'S STORIES: COMEDIES (UK sales of 10,000) and SHAKESPEARE'S STORIES (UK sales of 35,000).

 

This book features in the following series: Shakespeare's Tales, Shakespeares Tales .

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Hachette Children's Group .

Beverley was born in London, grew up in Kenya and came to Britain for the first time to take A levels. She graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Economics and Sociology. After travelling in Africa, America, Europe and the Middle East, Beverley joined Penguin as an editor. Since then she has continued to work in publishing - at present she combines writing and working as an editor here at Hodder. She has two daughters and is married to photographer Nick Birch. James Mayhew is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books. Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare. Ted Dewan won the coveted Mother Goose Award for his first children's picture book Inside the Whale and his cartoons regularly appear in the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, TES and Guardian. He lives in London with his wife, artist and Kate Greenaway Medal winner, Helen Cooper