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Legendary actress and Shakespearean expert Tina Packer takes all the fear out of understanding Shakespeare by adapting ten of The Bard’s most famous plays into easily understood short stories, retold in modern language. Her introduction provides the listener with easy-to-digest information about Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s life and work.
“Packer captures the essence of the playwright’s words and ideas, placing them in concise and clearly told stories…A treasure trove of well-told tales.” School Library Journal.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet.
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“Packer captures the essence of the playwright’s words and ideas, placing them in concise and clearly told stories…A treasure trove of well-told tales.”
— School Library Journal.
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About Tina Packer
Tina Packer is the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in England before becoming an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Comany. She has taught at Harvard, MIT, NYU, and Columbia. In 2009 she gave up artistic directorship of Shakespeare & Company to focus her energies on Women of Will.