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Leon Garfield’s Shakespeare Stories Film and Theatre Personalities The Reason Why Not fromHow to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeares language and the depth of his characters: Thats the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespeare Stories. Here twenty one of the Bards plays are refashioned into stories that are true to the wit, the humor, the wisdom, the sublime heights, the