Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1312139714
Jason and the Argonauts tells the story of their quest to find the Golden Fleece. They sail from Greece into the Black Sea. With the help of the sorceress Medea, they succeed in getting the Golden Fleece but then have to sail back home. This myth is one of the most important myths of ancient Greece.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2018-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365470180
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's "1 Henry VI." People who read this version first will find the original much easier to read.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 131213979X
Homer created the epic poems ""Iliad"" and ""Odyssey."" The "Iliad" tells only a small part of the story of the Trojan War. For example, the "Iliad" does not tell the story of the Trojan Horse although Homer knew about the Trojan Horse and assumed that his audience knew its story. Other, shorter epic poems that made up the Epic Cycle told the rest of the story of the Trojan War. The ""Iliad"" and the ""Odyssey"" have survived to the present time, but the other epic poems of the Epic Cycle have been lost since ancient times. Fortunately, Quintus of Smyrna wrote an epic poem that retold the tales recounted in the lost epic poems of the Epic Cycle. He told the story of the Trojan War from the end of the ""Iliad ""to when Odysseus sets sail for home in the "Odyssey" after Troy has fallen. In this retelling, as in all my retellings, I have tried to make the work of literature accessible to modern readers.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387445138
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's tragedy "'Tis Pity She's a Whore." In this tragedy, a brother and sister fall in love and commit incest.
Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573640025
A collection of comic sketches.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 0557050375
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387559982
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's THE BROKEN HEART. According to Charles Lamb, ""Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.""
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2018-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387509292
This is an easy-to-retelling of "The Famous Victories of Henry V," which is an important source for William Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "Henry V" plays.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2018-01-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1387462989
This is an easy-to-read retelling of ""Tarlton's Jests, ""which tells anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth I's favorite jester. He is thought to have been the Yorick in Hamlet's famous soliloquy. This book contains the original ""Tarlton's Jests"" in addition to the retelling. 25. How Tarlton Deceived a Doctor of Physic [Medicine]. Tarlton, to satisfy the humors [moods] of certain gentlemen who were his familiar acquaintances, decided to test the skill of a simple Doctor of Physic, who dwelt not far from Islington, and this is what happened: Tarlton took a urinal, filled it half full of good wine, and carried it to this doctor, saying it was a sick man's urine. The doctor viewed it, and tossing it up and down, as though he had great knowledge, he said that the patient whose urine it is, is full of gross humors, and has need of purging, and needs to be bled some ten ounces of blood. "No, you dunce," Tarlton replied. "It is good p*ss," and he drank it all and then threw the urinal at the doctor's head.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2020-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387722093
This is an easy-to-read retelling of "King Edward III," a history play that may have been written in part by William Shakespeare.
