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[CCBC-Net] Macbeth for children?

From: Mary Ann Gilpatrick <MGilpatrick>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:23:32 -0700

Er; the shoe is on the other foot; Shakespeare used the folktale for King Lear; "Like Meat Loves Salt" is one surviving variant.

Mary Ann Gilpatrick Walla Walla Public Library 238 E. Alder Walla Walla WA 99362 509-524-4435 mgilpatrick at ci.walla-walla.wa.us


Speaking of Shakespeare for children, there's "Like Meat Loves Salt," the Appalachian reworking of King Lear in Richard Chase's Grandfather Tales, a storyteller's staple.
 
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