Week 2_PRABE #1

This week we read a version of Shakespeare's  A Midsummer Night's Dream. My daughter asked that we read it because of a previous series of books mentioned Titania and Oberon and she was intrigued and wanted to hear more about them. We found this version of the story in our local thrift store and it was perfect for relating Shakespeare to a young person. It kept many of the more famous lines from the original play while relating the entire story in a more modern tongue and with extended explanations as to what was going on. While I wondered if it would be too confusing for her, with all of the going back and forth and different people falling in love with others, etc., but she was quite acute at keeping it all straight. Her favorite part was the play that Nick Bottom and the others put on at the end, Pyramus and Thisbe. I don't know that she "got" a lot of the humor, but she enjoyed Puck and the mix ups that he caused. We followed up the book by renting the movie this weekend. The movie included all Shakespearean dialog, but having read and discussed the book prior, she was able to keep up with the storyline.