Basil Coleman (1916–2013)

I had never read this one before now. The story is fairly simple, at its heart just a story of a couple falling in love, but with that Shakespearean flair. There are a lot of the classic Shakespeare tropes that I recognize from his other works, and of course this is the origin of one of his most famous lines, "All the world's a stage..."

This particular edition is part of a series that was released to supplement BBC televised adaptations, so it includes a cast list, pictures from the production, and notes where the script was altered for TV (pointing out what lines were omitted and the stage direction alterations to fit with the filming locations). It's interesting to see which bits of dialogue were cut, some probably for time and others for a better narrative flow.

This one will be going to my Little Free Library, hopefully to be discovered by some burgeoning Shakespeare fan.… (meer)