Children’s Shakespeare Collection Vol.1: The Comedies

For ages 7–11

By: William Shakespeare, Collins

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Tom Clarke-Hill

Eight of the bard’s funniest plays, from A Midsummer’s Night Dream to The Winter’s Tale, abridged and novelised for young listeners. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move!

Introduce your children to the wonderful world of Shakespearean comedies with these abridged stories, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects, music and fun, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!

Playlist:
· A Midsummer’s Night Dream
· The Tempest
· Twelfth Night
· Much Ado About Nothing
· A Comedy of Errors
· The Merchant of Venice
· As You Like it
· The Winter’s Tale

Copyright: A Midsummer’s Night Dream © HarperCollinsPublishers, The Tempest © John Dougherty 2015, Twelfth Night © Celia Rees 2015, Much Ado About Nothing © Sue Purkiss 2017, A Comedy of Errors © HarperCollinsPublishers 2017, The Merchant of Venice © Jon Mayhew 2017, As You Like it © HarperCollinsPublishers 2017, The Winter’s Tale © HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Too sugar coated

This audiobook takes away too much of the Shakespeare parts of the plays and dumbs them down too much for children. The dialogue is so changed that it doesn’t even resemble the plays lines anymore. Would not recommend this even to children. They would find this too over the top.

a disrespect to Shakespear

The stories are based on Shakespear's great works, however the words are changed and dumbed down to the point it barely resembles the real thing. In addition the voices are quite annoying and forced and just add to the shallowness of the reading.