But Sir Toby kept him in hopes, and he kept Sir Toby in drink which seemed a fair exchange. To be honest, the knight was old enough to know better, and too old to do it. Though he always dressed young, it was a case of stale wine in a new bottle. Nonetheless, Sir Andrew kept paying for Sir Toby’s entertainment in the foolish hope of becoming his nephew. He himself had fetched his niece a suitor, a long, thin knight by name of Sir Andrew Aguecheek but it had been to no avail. “What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus?” complained her uncle, Sir Toby Belch, a fat bag of wind and merriment who lived in her house and floated between kitchen and cellar like a portly bubble in stained brocade. She was in mourning for a brother deceased, and had shut herself away in her mansion, and vowed to see no suitors for seven long years. But alas! What pleasure was there in a feast for only one? The lady would have nothing to do with him, nor, indeed, with any of his sex. ” and his lute-player bent low over his beribboned instrument and filled the air with song. “If music be the food of love,” he sighed, gazing through his windows towards the lady’s house, “play on, give me excess of it. Orsino was his name, and, before the shipwreck, he was fathoms deep in love with Olivia, a fair countess who dwelt nearby. Title.įor a complete list of titles in the New York Review Children’s Collection, please visit or write to:Ĭatalog Requests, NYRB, 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014īefore you hear of the shipwreck, you must know that, inland from its wild sea coast, Illyria was a green and golden land, of thatched cottages, neat as well-combed children, of gracious mansions, and the noble palace of the Duke. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Adaptations-Juvenile literature. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Stories, plots, etc.-Juvenile literature. (New York Review Books Children's Collection)ġ.
Shakespeare stories / by Leon Garfield illustrated by Michael Foreman. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Library of Congress has cataloged an earlier printing of this book as follows: Shakespeare Stories and Shakespeare Stories II are published in Great Britain by Penguin Books, Ltd. Shakespeare Stories II was originally published in Great Britain in 1994 by Victor Gollancz Limited.
Shakespeare Stories was originally published in Great Britain in 1985 by Victor Gollancz Limited. Leon Garfield’s Shakespeare Stories was previously published in two volumes: Shakespeare Stories and Shakespeare Stories II. Illustrations copyright © 1985, 1994 by Michael Foreman Text copyright © 1985, 1994 by Leon Garfield PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS THE NEW YORK REVIEW CHILDREN’S COLLECTION
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