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."