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David Bruce
Books in Order: 96 titles
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John Lyly's Campaspe and Galatea
This book consists of easy-to-read retellings of John Lyly's CAMPASNE and GALATEA. Reading these retellings first will make reading the original play much easier. In CAMPASNE, Alexander interacts with the Cynic philosopher Diogenes. In GALATEA, two y...
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John Lyly's The Woman in the Moon
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Lyly's THE WOMAN IN THE MOON, about Pandora, the first woman.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright your translation, publish or self-pub...
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John Lyly's Endymion, The Man in the Moon
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Lyly's Endymion, The Man in the Moon. Reading this retelling first will make reading and understanding the original play much easier.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission...
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John Lyly's Galatea
This an easy-to-read retelling of John Lyly's GALATEA. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier.In this play, two young women, both disguised in male clothing, fall in love....
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John Lyly's Midas
John Lyly's MIDAS tells the story of King Midas of Phrygia, who wished that everything he touched would turn to gold. He also judged a music contest between two gods and chose the wrong god.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give...
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John Lyly's Campaspe
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Lyly's CAMPASPE. Reading this retelling first will help you to understand the original play.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright your t...
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John Lyly's Sappho and Phao
This book is an easy-to-read retelling of John Lyly's SAPPHO AND PHAO. A working-class ferryman and a princess fall in love.Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright your translation...
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J.W. Gent.'s The Valiant Scot
This is an easy-to-read retelling of J.W. Gent.'s THE VALIANT SCOT, which is about the Scotch hero Willian Wallace. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I ...
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John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Lyly's LOVE'S METAMORPHOSIS. Reading this retelling first will make reading and understanding the original play much easier. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to tran...
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Margaret Cavendish's The Unnatural Tragedy
This is a retelling of Margaret Cavendish's THE UNNATURAL TRAGEDY. This play has three plots: One: Monsieur FRERE pursues an incestuous relationship with his sister, Madame SOEUR. Two: The sociable VIRGINS discuss intellectual and social ...
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George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! A Retelling
This book is an easy-to-read retelling of George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston's EASTWARD HO! A Retelling. Reading this retelling will help you to read and understand the original play. In this retelling, as in all my retellings, I have tried...
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Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humor
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOR. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier to understand. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permissi...
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Ben Jonson's Sejanus' Fall
This is a retelling of Ben Jonson's tragedy SEJANUS HIS FALL in the English of today. Reading this retelling first will help readers better understand the original play. Sejanus was the second most powerful man in the Roman Empire, and Emperor Tiberi...
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Ben Jonson's The Staple of News
This is an easier-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's THE STAPLE OF NEWS, a satire about the news industry and about wealth and money. Reading this retelling will make reading and understanding the original play much easier. Do you know a language othe...
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The Merry Devil of Edmonton
This is an easy-to-read retelling of THE MERRY DEVIL OF EDMONTON, a popular anonymous comedy of the Elizabethan era. At one time, William Shakespeare was believed to have written the play. in this play, Peter Fabell, a magician known as the Merry Dev...
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Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy THE DEVIL IS AN ASS. People who read this version first will find the original play much easier to read and understand. THE DEVIL IS AN ASS because human beings are so much better than THE DEVI...
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John Ford's Perkin Warbeck
KING HENRY VII: 1485-1509 When King Richard III fell at the Battle of Bosworth, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, became King Henry VII. A Lancastrian, he married Elizabeth of York ? young Elizabeth of York in Richard III ? and united the two warring ho...
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George Peele's The Arraignment of Paris
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Elizabethan playwright George Peele?s THE ARRAIGNMENT OF PARIS. Inscribed on a golden apple is the phrase ?For the fairest,? written in Latin (in Peele's play). Because Latin is a language that indicates masculine...
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John Ford's Love's Sacrifice
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's "Love's Sacrifice." People who read this version first will find the original play much easier to read and understand. According to Charles Lamb, "Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for su...
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George Peele's The Old Wives' Tale
This is an easy-to-read retelling of George Peele's "THE OLD WIVES' TALE." It is a play within a play. An old wife tells a fairy tale to visitors. As she tells the tale, the characters come to life and act out the fairy tale....
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John Ford's The Queen
This is an easy-to-read retelling of John Ford's comedy (it has a happy ending) THE QUEEN. Alphonso loves a woman not enough; Velasco loves a woman too much. Alphonso will not allow the Queen (his wife) to act like a woman, and Salassa will not allow...
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Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Christopher Marlowe's last play: "The Massacre at Paris." The full title is "The Massacre at Paris with the Death of the Duke of Guise." This book is about the events leading up to the Saint Bartholomew Day's Mass...
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Christopher Marlowe's Dido of Carthage: A Retelling
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Christopher Marlowe's DIDO OF CARTHAGE, in which Aeneas, his ships damaged by a storm, lands on the shore of Carthage, which is being built by the Phoenician Dido. Two goddesses cause her to fall in love with Aene...
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John Ford's "'Tis Pity She's a Whore"
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- 1.1 -In Friar Bonaventura's cell, the good friar and Giovanni were...
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Tarlton's Jests: A Retelling
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 "Tar...
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William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida"
Cressida has a problem. During the Trojan War, she falls in love with the young Trojan warrior Troilus and eventually sleeps with him. Almost immediately, she is sent to the Greek camp in exchange for an important Trojan prisoner because her father, ...
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William Shakespeare's "Richard III"
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's history play ""Richard III."" People who read this retelling first will find the original play much easier to read and understand. Suppose you were born with physical disabilities but wanted ...
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William Shakespeare's Cymbeline
Posthumus Leonatus, an orphan, has some problems. He married Imogen, a Princess, without the permission of her father, King Cymbeline of Britain. Because Posthumus is a commoner and King Cymbeline does not want him to inherit the crown, Cymbeline ban...
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William Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince of Tyre": A Retelling in Prose
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's romance "Pericles, Prince of Tyre." Pericles wanders the world, marries and has a daughter, loses both his wife and daughter, and regains both in a happy ending....
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William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's problem play "Measure for Measure." People who read this version first will find it much easier to understand the language of the original play....
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William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"
One theme of the play is the harmful effects that prejudice can have on people. It can make someone want to cut a pound of flesh from a living person. It can make someone spit on the clothing and the beard of an old person. We can sympathize with Shy...
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William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
This is a retelling in prose of William Shakespeare's comedy ""Twelfth Night."" In it, a pair of twins - a brother and a sister - are separated and each thinks that the other dead. Of course, they end up finding each other, and they end up finding ro...
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William Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy play titled "As You Like It." In it, Rosalind and Orlando fall instantly in love. Both need to escape separately to the Forest of Arden. There, Rosalind, in disguise as a youn...
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William Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." In it, Katherina vows before God - in the marriage ceremony - to love, honor, and obey her husband, but very quickly she makes it apparent that she is not taking he...
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William Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV, Aka Henry IV, Part 1
This book is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's "1 Henry IV," which is also known as "Henry IV, Part 1." In this book, we learn of Prince Hal's friendship with the evil but witty Falstaff, and we see Prince Hal redeem himself at the B...
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William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream,"" whose major theme is love and the silly things it makes us do: 1) Love can make us see a distinction where no real distinction exists. 2) Love can make us desir...
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William Shakespeare's Much ADO about Nothing
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy ""Much Ado About Nothing."" In it, Beatrice and Benedick engage in verbal battles each time they meet, and yet they fall in love....
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William's Shakespeare's Othello
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's tragedy titled "Othello," about an evil man named Iago who manipulates Othello, the Moor of Venice, into falsely believing that his wife, Desdemona, is unfaithful to him....
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
This is an easy-to-read version of William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet."" Prologue The Capulets and the Montagues - two families, very much alike in most respects - in the beautiful city of Verona, Italy, battle each other because of a long-stan...
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William Shakespeare's the Tempest
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." This is the last play he wrote by himself, although later he co-wrote two plays with John Fletcher. In "The Tempest," Prospero, who lives on a mostly deserted island with his d...
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Homer's Odyssey
Print edition. This is a retelling of Homer's ""Odyssey"" in novel form. This is an easy-to-read version. Chapter 1: Athena and Telemachus Muse, goddess of inspiration, please help me. I have an important story to tell, and I need help to tell it. Pl...
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William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, or, What You Will"
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the sta...
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William Shakespeare's As You Like It
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the sta...
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William Shakespeare's "1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1"
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the sta...
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William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth."" CHAPTER 1: The Temptation of Macbeth - 1.1 - In a deserted place above which thunder sounded and lightning flashed, Three Witches were ending their meeting. Nearby, a battle rage...
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Jason and the Argonauts
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 ...
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From the Iliad to the Odyssey
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the sta...
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Virgil's "Aeneid"
This is a retelling in novel form of the Latin epic poem ""Aeneid"" by Virgil. My theme is war and a particular man-a man driven by destiny to abandon Troy and sail to western Italy to fulfill his fate of founding the people who would build Rome. Ful...
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The Three Coffin Caper
It was seven o'clock in the evening on Tuesday August 14, 1945. This was a special day because this was Victory in Japan Day. People were dancing in the streets. Women were kissing strangers, sailors and soldiers in Times Square. World War II was fin...
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Dante's "Divine Comedy"
Chapter 1: The Dark Wood of Error (Inferno)Just before Good Friday, April 8, 1300, Dante woke up to find himself in a dark wood. How he got there he did not know because he had wandered from the correct path little by little, not realizing for a long...
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Dante's "Paradise"
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the sta...
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Dante's "Purgatory"
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the sta...
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Dante's Purgatory
Chapter 1: The Island of Purgatory and Cato the GuardDante the Poet thought, Now my talent for poetry must be put to a new test. I have left behind me the Inferno, where unrepentant sinners are punished. Now my subject is Purgatory, where repentant s...
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William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens has a problem. He has been immensely wealthy, and immensely generous, but some of his debts are due, and he has no money. But he is positive that his friends, to whom he has been immensely generous, will be just as generous to him. Hi...
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Dante's Inferno
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the sta...
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Homer's "Odyssey"
I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the state of Texa...
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The Farmhand
Twenty-something Louis Gardere needed a paycheck. He found out that the quickest way to a paycheck was by working at Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola). However, Louis soon found out that the costs to his psyche were greater than the benefits. The...
