The Merry Wives of Windsor Book

I love these editions! It is so hard to introduce the wonderful world of William Shakespeare to new students. So worthwhile doing, but it's very difficult to make the great material accessible to both young people today and also people of all ages not yet familiar with this poetic and human literature and living theatre work!

Compounding the challenge, as those familiar with the Bard know only too well, "two hours' traffic of our stage" often stretches to more like three or four.

Enter editor Nick Newlin, giving us these beautiful abridgments -- that play in under 30 minutes! -- and, that retain all the original characters' original language! The 30-Minute Shakespeare -- by definition -- are not the full length works. Perfectly, The 30-Minute Shakespeare serve as a fabulous entry: a key to open the door into Shakespeare's timeless, historic world and into his universal, truthful experience, enacted in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

And enacted is what these wonderful, handy volumes are designed to be (just like the original scripts). Newlin gives awesome, folksy, anecdotal, and very specific, clear instructions, detailing (from amongst the infinite possible number of ways) one approach to get these plays up on their feet, with The 30-Minute Shakespeare script in the hand of student and novice actors. Nothing more need we ask: these books are gems, perfect as what they are, serving a very specific purpose and fulfilling the exact need for which they exist.

Indispensable! Ideal for youth, and others of all ages, for the first time being introduced to the beautiful plays of Shakespeare.