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SCRIPTS
Community Shakespeare Company Editions:
Shakespeare for Young People
This highly intelligent, innovative approach to Shakespeare immediately engages students grade 3 and up, along with the significant adults in their lives: parents, teachers, mentors, community groups are all inspired by these original, re-imagined Elizabethan-style texts. Best of all, children as young as eight love performing them!
CSC Edition scripts are faithful adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, written in verse, combining the Bard's immortal words with just enough modern English to make the plays easy for youngsters (and Shakespeare-intimidated adults) to understand and embrace. No text currently available makes Shakespeare so accessible to so many. Young children easily memorize these rhyming couplets. Adults who “never understood Shakespeare” are engaged for the first time. These adaptations capture the spirit and the essence of Shakespeare’s original work, while giving his plays fresh energy and interest for today’s audiences. Read more about the scripts.
JUST PUBLISHED - The Tempest!!
You can order online direct from the author with our secure payment service provided by PayPal. You do not need a PayPal account, but cookies must be enabled. We offer discounts on orders of 20 or more copies of one title. Email Richard Carter for more details.
No performance royalties are being charged at this time. Please buy one book for each participating member of your cast and crew.
| Title | Order Direct |
| The Tempest | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | |
| The Comedy of Errors | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | |
| As You Like It | |
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Scripts are also available from amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Click on the titles below to order.
Now also available at The Drama Bookshop (NY) - www.dramabookshop.com (search for Community Shakespeare) and the Internet Theater Bookshop (UK) - www.stageplays.com - and many other book sellers. You can also search for Community Shakespeare Company to locate the scripts.
Community Shakespeare Company Scripts are perfect for educators, youth leaders, mentors, and students in public school systems, private schools, home schools, arts enrichment programs, literacy-through-arts organizations, summer camps, children’'s theatres, community theatres, and Shakespeare theatres worldwide.
This system works; the scripts are delightful and respectful of the original texts. We’ve found that kids using CSC scripts adore performing Shakespeare, adults love watching them, and communities benefit from the social, educational, and multi-generational interaction inspired by the play production process. Documentary research establishes the positive educational and social outcomes for youth and their mentors.
For more information, contact Richard Carter at rcarter@communityshakespeare.org
VIEW SAMPLE SCRIPTS:
A Midsummer Nights DreamNote: the sample scripts are incomplete and are meant for informational purposes only.
"The reading group of the Portsmouth Athenaeum (including our 80-plus year-old best readers) enjoyed ourselves enormously with the Community Shakespeare "Taming of the Shrew." A lively and delightful evening!"
-- Laura Donohoe, Portsmouth, N.H.
"I'm very impressed. and really filled with awe. I don't know how you did
such simple and elegant and eminently usable adaptations. Bravo. And the way
the book is designed is just right. It's attractive, friendly, easily readable
and easily usable by actors. "
-- Lenka Peterson O'Conner, author, KIDS TAKE THE STAGE
"I'm pleased to say the quality of your work has answered most of
our reservations about adapting the Bard and consequently we'd be happy to
include your titles
at The Internet Theatre Bookshop."
-- Internet Theatre Bookshop
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