Each title in Barron popular and enduring Shakespeare Made Easy series presents the complete text of a Shakespeare play with Shakespeare original lines printed on left-hand pages and a modern, easy-to-understand translation? Of the Bard Elizabethan English on facing right-hand pages. In addition to the play, each book presents helpful background information for students that places each play in historical perspective, as well as quizzes and questions that teachers can use for short tests and classroom discussions.

Here are fine introductions to many of the greatest plays ever written--literary classics that every student should know and understand. In Shakespeare romantic comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, the lovely Bianca is courted by many suitors, but her bad-tempered sister Kate frightens young men away. Then Kate is courted by Petruchio, and the real fun begins.


Barron 出版的本系列書籍，暢銷且歷久不衰，每本書的呈現方式包含莎士比亞劇作的完整劇本，書中左頁為原句台詞、右頁為淺顯易懂的現代英語翻譯。不只如此，每本書還附有實用的背景知識，以幫助學生瞭解劇中的歷史觀點。此外，書中還附有測驗和習題，供老師課堂上考試或討論之用。

書中內容介紹多部史上最偉大的劇作，也是學生理應知曉的文學經典。例如在莎士比亞的浪漫喜劇《馴悍記》中，美麗的比恩卡有眾多追求者，但是她的姊姊凱瑟麗娜卻因為脾氣暴躁，讓男士們避而遠之。然而隨著彼特魯喬向凱瑟麗娜求婚，這齣喜劇便開始上演。

Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern, easy-to-understand "translation" on the facing right-hand page.

All dramas are complete, with every original Shakespearian line, and a full-length modern rendition of the text. These invaluable teaching-study guides also include:

1. Helpful background information that puts each play in its historical perspective.
2. Discussion questions that teachers can use to spark student class participation, and which students can use as springboards for their own themes and term papers.
3. Fact quizzes, sample examinations, and other features that improve student comprehension of what each play is about.


本系列協助教師授課莎士比亞劇本，讓教師無需不斷解釋和定義伊莉莎白一世時期的用語和俚語，以及不同於現代英語的表達方式。書中編排左頁為莎翁劇作中的原句台詞，右頁為「翻譯」後淺顯易懂的現代用語。

所有莎翁劇作在本書中皆有原句台詞以及使用現代英語的內文。本系列為實用的教學及自學用書，內容包含：

1. 實用的背景知識協助了解劇中的歷史觀點。
2. 問題與討論讓教師能夠激起學生課堂參與，學生也能將議題延伸至研究主題與學期報告。
3. 戲劇內容事實查找、考古模擬試題、各式主題活動，讓學生更理解每部劇作內容。