Helping students get into Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing: Side by Side

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	• Much Ado About Nothing: Side by Side William Shakespeare Prestwick House Inc., 2003 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Multiple Perspectives - Great Idea. The NIV of Shakespeare!

My teen read this for her summer reading program, and she loved the dual style used. She loves to read, and read it twice... once in each version. This "Side by Side" is a great idea, although I imagine some Literature teachers would give me demerits for ordering this version of Much Ado About Nothing for my daughter. Shakespeare is an "acquired taste" and this opens up a window into his works, giving my teen a taste of great literature some students might never grow to appreciate. I highly recommend this for students that are put off by Shakespeare's original language. It's the literature equivalent of reading the New International Version of the Bible instead of the King James Version -- better to read one that is understood and actually read!
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Helping students get into Shakespeare

The side by side edition, has both Shakespeare's script on the left hand side and modern language on the right. It no longer intimidates the reluctant reader, that becomes entangled with the archaic language and unusual vocabulary. Study questions are included at the back of the book for each scene.

Good study tool

Shakespeare is often unintelligible to the average person. The idea of getting a script with the original and a modern version side by side was very attractive, and has proved most useful in understanding what I am reading. However, I was disappointed at the lack of poetry and rythym in the modern version given in this book. I definitely would never perform the modern English script as given here. Still, this version is very useful as a study tool, and I recommend it for that purpose.

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Wonderful!

This is a fantastic play, but as all plays go, it is better watched first, then read. I recommend the vodeo version with Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, and Denzel Washington, but I did see an older one that was OK too.

Visually engages readers by placing the original dialogue on the left-hand side of the page, and a modern prose interpretations on the right. As a result, it is easy for readers to cross reference as they move through the play and finally "get" Shakespeare.