Living Shakespeare, Books I-V (Five Volumes) (Signed and Inscribed)

Complete in five volumes. Uniformly bound in decorated, illustrated peach cloth-covered boards with green lettering front and spine. Each volume signed and inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Charmingly illustrated with line drawings. 12mos. Boards gently rounded at corners and spine tips, perhaps a tad faded. Hint of toning on endpapers else internally remarkably clean, neat, bright and tight. A pleasing vintage set. Shakespeare's plays were written to be seen and heard. In these volumes, Laura Bransom retells the narrative of the plays as fully formed stories for younger readers. The plays retold include Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Henry IV Part I, The Tempest, Richard II, As You Like It, etc