Bibliography of readings related to "Golden Lads & Lasses": Shakespeare for Children
This article is related to “Golden Lads and Lasses”: Shakespeare for Children, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger.
The following list includes books by and about Shakespeare that are geared for children and were featured in the exhibition. The list is not meant to be comprehensive but to provide a sampling of titles for the young. Unfortunately, some of these titles are out of print.
- Aliki. William Shakespeare and the Globe. New York: HarperTrophy, 2000.
- Folger Call Number: Folio Sh.Misc. 2044
- Aronson, Billy. Romeo & Juliet. Illustrations by Hokanson/Cichetti. Sagebrush, 2001.
- Folger Call Number: PR2878.R6 A76 1996 (c1996)
- Blackwood, Gary. Shakespeare’s spy. New York: Dutton Books, 2003.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2017
- Burdett, Lois. A child’s portrait of Shakespeare. Richmond Hill, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 1995.
- Folger Call Number: PR2895 .B87 1995
- Burdett, Lois. Macbeth for kids. Firefly Books, 1996.
- Folger Call Number:
- Cheaney, J. B. The playmaker. New York: Yearling, 2002.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2019
- Chrisp, Peter. Eyewitness: Shakespeare. New York: DK Publishing, 2002.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2003
- Cooper, Susan. King of shadows. New York: Aladdin, 2001.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2029
- Cullum, Albert. Shake hands with Shakespeare. New York: Scholastic, 1968.
- Folger Call Number: PR2877 .C8
- Early, Margaret. The most excellent and lamentable tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
- Folger Call Number: Folio Sh.Misc. 2043
- Fiedler, Lisa. Dating Hamlet: Ophelia’s story. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2002.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2008
- Forward, Toby. Shakespeare’s Globe: an interactive pop-up theatre. Boston: Candlewick, 2005.
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- Garfield, Leon. Shakespeare stories. Illustrated by Michael Foreman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2006 (c1985)
- Graves, Joseph. Dramatic tales founded on Shakespeare’s plays. London: J. Duncombe, [ca. 1830].
- Folger Call Number: Sh.misc. 1591
- Hall Schor, Catharine. A midsummer night’s dream. Young people’s Shakespeare series. Shaftsbury, VT: Mountainside Press, 2003.
- Folger Call Number: PR2827 .A25 2003
- Hassinger, Peter. Shakespeare’s daughter. [New York]: Laura Geringer, 2004.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2018
- Hodges, C. Walter. Shakespeare’s theatre. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
- Folger Call Number: PN2589 .H6
- Kastan, David Scott, and Marina Kastan. William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Glen Harrington. Poetry for young people series. New York: Sterling Pub., 2000.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2011
- Kositsky, Lynne. A Question of Will. Cover illustration by Carol Biberstein. Montréal: Roussan Publishers, 2000.
- Folger Call Number: PZ7 .K85255 2000
- Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Tales from Shakespeare. Illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott. New York: Children’s Classics, 1999.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2009
- Mark, Jan. Stratford boys. London: Hodder Children’s Books, 2004.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2020
- Miller, Carol Rawlings. Irresistible Shakespeare. New York: Scholastic Professional Books, 2001.
- Folger Call Number: PR2987 .M55 2001
- Nesbit, E. The children's Shakespeare. Illustrated by Frances Brundage, M. Bowley, J. Willis Grey, etc. etc. London; New York: R. Tuck, [189-?].
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2068
- Packer, Tina. Tales from Shakespeare. Illustrated by Gail de Marcken. New York: Scholastic, 2004.
- Folger Call Number: PR2877 .P33 2004
- Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Simply Shakespeare series. Sagebrush, 2002.
- Folger Call Number: PR2823 .A25 2002
- ———. A midsummer night's dream. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, 1908.
- Folger Call Number: Folio PR2827 1908 Copy 1 Sh.Col.
- ———. Othello. Edited by Roma Gill. Oxford school Shakespeare series. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Folger Call Number: PR2829.A2 G5 2002
- ———. Romeo and Juliet. Edited by Diane Timmerman. 90-minute Shakespeare series. Hanover, NH: Smith & Kraus, 2001.
- Folger Call Number: PR2877 .T5 2001
- ———. Romeo and Juliet. Edited by Rex Gibson. Cambridge school Shakespeare series. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Folger Call Number: PR2831 .A25 1998
- Stanley, Diane. Bard of Avon: the story of William Shakespeare. HarperTrophy, 1998.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2005
- Von., ill. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. New York: Knopf, 1983.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.misc. 1931
- Williams, Marcia. Tales from Shakespeare. Boston: Candlewick, 2004.
- Folger Call Number: Sh.Misc. 2001