Hamlet in the graveyard, musing over the skull of Yorick the jester;
Juliet on her balcony and Romeo in the courtyard below, exchanging
rapturous reflections on their new-found love; mad King Lear, railing at
the elements in the midst of a howling storm upon the heath -- these and
other immortal scenes from Shakespeare's best-known and most-loved works
appear in this unique coloring book.
Colorists of all ages will thrill to these finely-rendered depictions of
memorable tableaux from Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar, Antony and
Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Twelfth Night, and
other famous plays by the Bard. Summaries of the plays, selections from
the appropriate text, and captions accompany the illustrations. Texts
include Portia's courtroom speech, "The quality of mercy is not
strain'd"; Marc Antony's elegy for the assassinated Caesar, "Friends,
Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"; the sleepwalking Lady Macbeth's
lament over her blood-stained hands, "Out, damned spot!"; and numerous
other oft-quoted lines.