Yep - still Shakespeare!

Having been so entranced by Twelfth Night, K has decided that for her birthday treat (we give the choice of a party or a treat) she would like to go back to the RSC to see The Comedy of Errors.  So consequently (since we don't have a children's version and the library don't in their catalogue either) we looked at the synopsis on Wikipedia).  M lost interest half way through, but K thought it sounded very funny and confirmed her decision regarding her birthday.  A phone call to Granny later and it's all sorted, tickets booked (just for two this time, M & Daddy will go off and do something else while K & I are at the theatre).

This afternoon I re-read the story of The Taming of the Shrew  and then we watched the dvd that arrived from lovefilm this morning. 

The children's versions (above and the Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits cd) that we have are, so far, the furthest remove from the orginal, with the main characters (or stars as K prefers to call them) being made much more sympathetic.  I'm not sure whether it was enough to make K change her mind about it being her favourite (the reason for I suspect being almost entirely because of the name of the main character, rather than the story - it has however brought the word 'misogynist' into her vocabulary!)

We've borrowed  William Shakespeare and his Dramatic Acts from the resource library at Fun Club.  K seems to be enjoying it and interested, but has told me there are too many pictures (specifically of gory things).

Finally on the Shakespeare front (for now anyway, I'm sure there will be more!), M asked a rather, I think, perceptive question this evening.  She asked whether Five on a Secret Trail by Enid Blyton is based on Twelfth Night, as that too has misunderstandings as a result of not realising that characters were twins (there's also a storm in both!).  I told her I didn't think that the plot was entirely based on the Shakespeare play, but that she may well have got some ideas from him.