All the World's Your Stage Shakespeare for Today: Discover the World of Shakespeare Through 8 of His Most Famous Plays
Language: English
Published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), 2025
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- Title
- All the World's Your Stage Shakespeare for Today: Discover the World of Shakespeare Through 8 of His Most Famous Plays
- Author
- Karim-Cooper, Farah
- Publisher
- DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0593966953
- ISBN 13
- 9780593966952
Introduce your child to the work of William Shakespeare in this gorgeous treasury for all the family to enjoy. By expertly reimagining eight of the Bard's most famous plays, Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper breathes new life into these well-loved works, making them highly engaging for a new generation of fans.
Including kid-friendly summaries of eight renowned Shakespeare plays:
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As You Like It
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
Additional features:
- Fun facts about the life and times of Shakespeare, plus interesting information on how they created the sounds and smells in The Tempest, and the magic and fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Beautifully illustrated throughout, with charming representations of popular characters and scenes from each play
- A fantastic educational gift for children aged 7-11 or a brilliant classroom resource, created to instill artistic passion in a new generation of theater enthusiasts
With insightful and engaging storytelling combined with historical context and key themes for each play, readers will discover how Shakespeare gives us tools to think about the world today - and realize that Shakespeare really is for everyone, across every age group and time period!
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About the Author
Prior to joining the Folger, Dr. Karim-Cooper was Professor of Shakespeare Studies, King's College London, and Director of Education (Higher Education & Research) at Shakespeare's Globe, where she worked for 20 years. While at the Globe, she led the architectural enquiries into early modern theaters as Chair of the former Architecture Research Group, overseeing the research into the design and construction of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. She was a co-project leader with the CEO and AD on the playhouse construction.
Dr. Karim-Cooper served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America 2021-2022 after serving 5 years on the Board of Trustees. She is the recipient of the British Shakespeare Association Fellowship Award 2023 for her contribution to Shakespeare Studies and Inclusivity. She held an Oxford Humanities Cultural Programme Fellowship and was Visiting Fellow of Exeter College Oxford from 2022-2023.
She has published over 40 chapters in books, reviews, and articles and served as a co-General Editor for Arden's Shakespeare in the Theatre series and their Critical Intersections Series. She has published several books on Shakespeare, theater, performance, and culture, including: Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama (Edinburgh University Press, 2006, revised ed. 2019) and The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment (Arden, 2016). She co-edited Shakespeare's Globe: A Theatrical Experiment with Christie Carson (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Shakespeare's Theatres and Effects of Performance with Tiffany Stern (Arden, 2012) and Moving Shakespeare Indoors: Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse with Andrew Gurr (Cambridge University Press, 2014); she edited a collection of essays for Arden, Titus Andronicus: The State of Play (2019) and edited the text of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi for the Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama, collated by Jeremy Lopez (2020). Her book, The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future (2023) was voted top 100 books of 2023 by Time Magazine, NPR and The New Yorker.
Her latest book, All the World's Your Stage: Shakespeare for Today, is written specifically for children ages 9-12. It will be published in November 2025 by DK.
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