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GARFIELD**, LEON: : SHAKESPEARE'S STORIES II

LONDON.GOLLANCZ,1994.

ISBN 0575050497.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,glossy laminated,Michael Foreman colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges.Head+foot of spine/backstrip slightly bumped with reciprocal creasing and some minimal rubbing.Top+fore-edges clean,contents bright,tight and clean also.Clean,blue paper-covered boards with some miniscule rubbing to edges+corners and head+foot of spine/backstrip too,with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine /backstrip and clean,plain mauve/purple eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-284pp (paginated) includes b/w Shakespeare portrait vignette illustrated half-title page; titlepage,contents+colour plates lists,9 plays (from Much Ado About Nothing,Julius Caesar,Anthony and Cleopatra,Measure for Measure,As You Like It,Cymbeline,King Richard III,The Comedy of Errors,and The Winter's Tale),16 full-colour,full-page illus (all called for) and profuse b/w illus throughout the text,all by Michael Foreman. Here,in a breathtaking display of virtuoso storytelling,splendidly illustrated by Michael Foreman,Leon Garfield gives us 9 of Shakespeare's most memorable plays,presented afresh in narrative form to delight both those who know our greatest dramatist's works,and those (especially young people) who are new to them. Shakespeare's Stories II is not a series of retellings,but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories which remain true to the essential spirit of the original versions.The author has captured all the richness of character,plot,mood and setting in Shakespeare's works,without resorting to simplification or change of emphasis.Indeed,Leon Garfield deliberately retains much of the original language, skilfully weaving it into his own prose,so that the reader is introduced to the flavour of the verse,as well as the incidents of plot and the spectacle of the drama.'Shakespeare's Stories II' is a wonderful distillation - a celebration and a reminder of Shakespeare's genius as poet and dramatist. Michael Foreman's dramatic colour illustrations and dazzingly varied b/w drawings - from loose,free studies in line and wash to detailed miniatures executed with the precision of etchings - are an artistic tour de force.In his most ambitious work to date (then 1985), Foreman shows himself to be a brilliantly sympathetic interpreter of the text,with illustrations which both reflect and amplify the broad range of mood and atmosphere that the stories encompass. These are a perfect complement to Leon Garfield's stories. Michael Foreman,born Pakefield,Suffolk, 1938.Studied at Lowestoft School of Art and at the Royal College of Art.Lecturer at St Martin's School of Art(1963-65),the London College of Printing(1967-8),the Royal College of Art(1968-70) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts(1972). Art Director of Playboy magazine,Chicago (1965) and the King Magazine,London (1966). Painter,etcher,illustrator and writer of children's books.His illustrative work is distinctive:he often works in colour of halftone,creating luminous effects with veils of thinly diluted pigment over delicate pencil outlines; in his etched illustrations,he uses soft ground techniques to achieve subtle tonal graduations.His imagery,ostensibly decorative,humorous or with a sometimes child-like appearance,often has menacing or bizarre overtones.He was winner of first prize in the Francis Williams Book Illustrations Award (1972+1977) and the Silver Eagle Prize at the Festival International du Livre,Nice,France (1972), the Graphics Prize at Bologna (1982) and the Kurt Maschler Award (1982),winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal,his recent book War Boy(1989) had just won him the Kate Greenaway Medal for a second time. Since April 2013,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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