Hamlet Translated Into Modern English: The Most Accurate Modern Translation with Additional Information Facts from BBC QI Elves | 誠品線上

Hamlet Translated Into Modern English: The Most Accurate Modern Translation with Additional Information Facts from BBC QI Elves

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內容簡介 Now You Too Can Understand Shakespeare. Modern English side-by-side with original text includes study notes and stage directions.For the first time collected in one volume, Shakespeare's original play side-by-side with an accurate line-by-line modern English translation, along with stage directions, study notes and historical facts to aid understanding. The original innuendos, political satire, puns and bawdy humour are retained, bringing the work to life for scholars, students, actors prepping for a performance, or lovers of the work to enjoy today without flicking back and forth for lengthy explanations. Additional study notes by former QI researcher and translation verified by historical consultant to the BBC and major movie companies.As an eight year old boy, SJ Hills read the first part of a simplified version of Macbeth in a children's comic. He rushed to the library to finish the story only to learn he couldn't understand the original work. So began a lifelong dream of making Shakespeare understandable for all, down the the smallest detail, enlisting the help of the world's most renowned researchers from BBC TV series, QI, to aid him. See also Macbeth Translated, Romeo and Juliet Translated and A Midsummer Night's Dream by SJ Hills.

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作者介紹 SJ HillsSJ Hills is currently working on the next release in the Shakespeare Translated Series, ’OTHELLO’, due to be published later this year, making it the fifth book in the series.Now published, MACBETH FOR ALL AGES by SJ Hills. The same highly accurate translation, study notes and stage directions as the Shakespeare Translated series, but with additional illustrations, and a four line synopsis on each facing page so readers of all ages can understand the work of the great master. The next in the ’For All Ages’ series will be Romeo and Juliet.Also available to purchase is ’THE COLLECTED STORIES OF E NESBIT VOLUME I, GOTHIC HORROR’ in both paperback and Kindle versions. Short stories by the writer famous for ’The Railway Children’ and ’The Treasure seekers’, and one of the biggest influences on JK Rowling (Harry Potter) and CS Lewis (Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe). Collected, edited, and with an introduction by SJ HILLS. Perfect reading material for those dark evenings. This is not a children’s book so be warned - Do Not Read Alone In The Dark!’STORIES FROM THE FAERIE QUEENE’ by Mary Macleod is a modern English version of the epic Elizabethan poem by Spencer - one of the most famous poems ever written, and the longest, spanning 12 volumes. Here it is condensed down to one book written in clear modern prose for readers of all ages, from younger readers to adults. Stories of knights in shining armour from days gone by when chivalry was not dead and the odd dragon needed killing in order to rescue the princess and her country. Edited and revised by SJ HILLS for DTC Publishing.

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