Twelfth Night

Series: Microwave Shakespeare
Interest Age: 11 - 16 Years old
Reading Age: 8 - 9 Years old
Published: 1 January 2019
AR Book Level: MY+ 4.8
Book Band: Brown
Catch Up Level: TBC
Lexile Level: TBC
Pages: 52pp
Words: 7088 words

Availability: In stock

Paperback (format)
ISBN: 9781785913402
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Ebook (format)
ISBN: 9781785913464
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Description

Twelfth Night is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeare's key plays.

It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The play is retold as a straightforward, pacey narrative in chapter-book format. The book use the present tense and lots of dialogue (in present-day English) to recreate he experience of actually watching the play.

The text follow the original plays faithfully so students can acquire an accurate understanding of the action and plot. Memorable quotations from the original text (in italics) make this book perfect for exam crammers! Plus each book includes visual information to help pupils get to grips with the plot, the key characters and their important relationships in the play. The stories are all presented in the period of the play but with modern day language.

Written by experienced writer Jill Atkins these are really accessible books. They are perfect for getting all pupils, whatever their ability, comfortable with each play before they go on to study it in its original form and a great all round introduction to Shakespeare.