Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Twisted Tales from Shakespeare by Richard Armour TWISTED TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. A limber litterateur, Mr. Armour, not satisfied with having broken the bare bones of history, here beards the Bard and adds not only mustaches and eyeglasses to Shakespearian characters but many a false none and blackened tooth. In the ""General Introduction"" Shakespeare's life, the Elizabethan theater and Shakespeare's development are not confined by any pedagogic plodding; the Appendices add their mutilations to the sonnets and the question of the authorship of the plays. Hamlet Macbeth A Midsummer, Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and are the plays decontaminated from any sense of pedantry in spite of the hardworking individual introductions. Altogether this should aid and abet any silly moment that might overtake you. Twisted Tales from Shakespeare. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Brownstown, MI, USA. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0070022518 ISBN-13: 9780070022515 Publisher: McGraw- Hill Companies Published: 1983 Language: English Alibris ID: 16685794416 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0070022526 ISBN-13: 9780070022522 Publisher: McGraw- Hill Companies Published: 06/1957 Language: English Alibris ID: 16677124045 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials. ► Contact This Seller. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0070022526 ISBN-13: 9780070022522 Publisher: McGraw- Hill Companies Published: 06/1957 Language: English Alibris ID: 16632685605 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials. ► Contact This Seller. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0070022518 ISBN-13: 9780070022515 Publisher: McGraw- Hill Companies Published: 06/1957 Language: English Alibris ID: 16641296848 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials. ► Contact This Seller. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Hardcover, Good Details: Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Language: English Alibris ID: 16630865313 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Hardcover, Good Details: Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Language: English Alibris ID: 16647737643 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Brownstown, MI, USA. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Hardcover, Good Details: Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Language: English Alibris ID: 16662979732 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Livermore, CA, USA. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Trade paperback, Good Details: ISBN: 0070022518 ISBN-13: 9780070022515 Publisher: McGraw- Hill Companies Published: 1983 Language: English Alibris ID: 13460495749 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60 Trackable Expedited: €7,20 Two Day Air: €13,50. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. a few small tears on cover. binding tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. ► Contact This Seller. 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies. Edition: 1983, McGraw-Hill Companies Trade paperback Details: ISBN: 0070022518 ISBN-13: 9780070022515 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Published: 1983 Language: English Alibris ID: 13807879938 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Reader copy. Paperback. cover and corner wear. small tears in covers. creased covers. ► Contact This Seller. Books by Richard Armour. Customer Reviews. Hilarious! Tongue-in-cheek sly humor! Read this book decades ago and I'm glad to find a copy. As with Richard Armour's book, 'Classics Reclassified', this was a book I read many years ago when I found it in the school library. Very funny (to a young teenager) and irreverent, 'Twisted Tales of Shakespeare' became a favourite which I borrowed a number of times. I learned quite a lot about Shakespeare's plays while reading these for my pleasure. As an English teacher, I look forward to sharing some of these tales with my reluctant readers and expect that they will be encouraged by Mr Armour's sense of humour. I have been searching for this book for years, thwarted by its being long out of print; now my search is over and I can rest easy. Richard Armour. Richard Armour (1906-1989). Courtesy Find a Grave . Richard Willard Armour (July 15, 1906 – February 28, 1989) was an American poet, academic, and satirical author who wrote over 65 books. Contents. Life [ edit | edit source ] Armour was born in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. His father was a pharmacist, and Armour's autobiographical Drug Store Days recalls his childhood in both San Pedro and Pomona. He attended Pomona College and Harvard University, where he studied with the eminent Shakespearean scholar George Lyman Kittredge and obtained a Ph.D. in English philology. He eventually became Professor of English at Scripps College and the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. In his early career he focused on serious literature, publishing (in 1935) a biography of the lesser English poet Bryan Waller Procter and in 1940, co-editing (with Raymond F. Howes) a series of observations by contemporaries about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge the Talker . Virginia Woolf cited this work in an essay stating, "Two pious American editors have collected the comments of this various company [Coleridge's acquaintances], and they are, of course, various. Yet it is the only way of getting at the truth—to have it broken into many splinters by many mirrors and so select." [1] You Bet Your Life [ edit | edit source ] In 1957, Armour appeared on the television game show You Bet Your Life hosted by Groucho Marx, of Marx Brothers fame. After introductions, Groucho repeated the show's famous catch-phrase, "Say the secret word, win a hundred dollars." Each episode of the show had a secret, common word (i.e. home, head, door) and if the contestant said the word during his/her often hilarious interview, then the partnered contestants would each get $50. In this particular case, Armour caught the host in a semantic trap, by immediately stating, "The secret word." He then demanded his $100. After a very brief moment of confusion the band broke out with a short medley indicating that the secret word had been said. Announcer and assistant George Fenneman then arrived on camera and turned to Armour, "From the C.O. over here that we will allow you to do what you just did. But nobody else better try this. That's what they said." Armour replied, "Thank you, very much." And Fenneman left the frame and responded, "You're welcome," quickly caught himself, and almost cut himself off stating, "I had nothing to do with it." Normally when the secret word is said, Groucho immediately hands over cash. He did not hand over the cash and it's unclear if they paid Armour the bonus even after Armour and his partner won the game. Writing [ edit | edit source ] Verse [ edit | edit source ] Armour wrote humorous light verse in a style reminiscent of Ogden Nash. These poems were often featured in newspaper Sunday supplements in a feature called Armour's Armory . Many of Armour's poems have been repeatedly and incorrectly attributed to Nash. Probably Armour's most- quoted poem (often attributed