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Title: Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (Shakespeare Made Easy: Modern English Version Side-By-Side With Full origiNal Text) by William Shakespeare, Alan Durband ISBN: 0-8120-3604-2 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: July, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (24 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a good play
Comment: I enjoyed reading this play, even if I had some problems at the beginning. I read the two stories side by side, because the original text is too hard to understand but I think you have to read the old language of Shakespeare. The jokes are very funny even though they are really different from modern jokes. For me the most interesting person in this play was Feste, because he's probably the most intelligent person but he can still be funny and make foolish things. I can really recommend this play, and I'm sure I'm going to read some more plays by Shakespeare.
Rating: 4
Summary: An average good book
Comment: Twelfth Night is in a way a good play, because it is very funny and rather easy to read. I also like that there is Shakespeare's language- and modern English version side by side. So you can read Shakespeare and if you don't understand something you can read it in modern English. So it's easy to understand.
But I don't like the plot. The two topics are love and mistakes by taking someone for someone he isn't really. So that's very boring. You know very early on how the play will end. The twins find together, Orsino "gets" Viola and Olivia "gets" Sebastian. It's to kitschy and I hate kitschy stories.
The person I like most is Feste, the clown. I knows all persons and is very intelligent, although all tell him his is only a fool. But I would say he is the only person of the play which is not a fool himself.
That's way I think it is an average good book. But for someone who likes kitschy stories it is perfect.
Rating: 5
Summary: Some Plays Achieve Greatness!
Comment: Of all Shakespheare's plays I've read so far, I like Twelfth Night the best. I read it so many times I even lost my dependence on the modern language translation and I could read the Elizabethan language with the right conversational rhythm, losing all the awkwardness. I particularly liked the role of the snobby servant Malvolio, who tries to move up to the level of his Countess Olivia and leave his other "inferiors" behind. There is a couple of elaborate pranks being played upon characters in the play, in which Malvolio becomes one of the victims. Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria are the comic "team" that set these pranks in motion, all with amusing results. I just like the playfulness of these characters and their continual search for fun.
The main plot of the play is little less interesting involving the old disguised, mistaken, or confused identity ploy that Shakespheare uses from time to time. This time out a woman named Viola is a character pretending to be a man who is sent to woo Countess Olivia for Duke Orsino. She has a brother that looks just like her, especially now since she is dressed like a man. Identity confusion ensues. Also the pranks of the subplot mesh with the main plot for an amusing end.
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Title: Macbeth : Modern English Version Side-By-Side With Full Original Text (Shakespeare Made Easy) by William Shakespeare, Alan Durband ISBN: 0812035712 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: April, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Made Easy) by William Shakespeare, Alan Durband ISBN: 0812035844 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: October, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Hamlet (Shakespeare Made Easy: Modern English Version Side-By-Side With Full Original Text) by William Shakespeare, Alan Durband ISBN: 0812036387 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: February, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Merchant of Venice: Modern English Version Side-By-Side With Full Original Text (Shakespeare Made Easy) by William Shakespeare, Alan Durband ISBN: 0812035704 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: April, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: King Lear by William Shakespeare ISBN: 0671722727 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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