Terry Deary's Best Ever Shakespeare Tales Synopsis
Terry Deary's Best Ever Shakespeare
Talestells you
more than just what happens in everyone's favourite Shakespeare
plays - it tells you the stories behind them.
Find out about:
A Midsummer Night's Dream,
King Lear, Twelfth Night,
The Tempest,
The Merchant of Venice,
Romeo and Juliet,
Julius Caesar,
The Taming of the Shrew,
Macbeth
Hamlet.
From how the plays were originally staged to what Shakespeare
himself might have thought of his work being taught in schools -
there's so much to find out.
One of the World Book Day 2014 Authors Terry Deary is the author of 249 fiction and non-fiction books published in 36 years and is one of the most successful children’s authors of all time. His Horrible Histories series has sold over 6 million copies in the UK and has been translated into over 40 languages, as well as being adapted into a BAFTA award-winning television series for CBBC. Terry was also voted The Outstanding Non-Fiction Author of the 20th Century (Books for Keeps). He has now turned his attentions to adult fiction and non-fiction and more television and stage work.
He is married to Jenny and they have a daughter Sara who recently had twins, Terry's first grandchildren. He lives in Durham.
