The Shakespeare Reader: and other Christmas Tales - Paperback

by Maren C. Tirabassi (Author)

"The Shakespeare Reader and Other Christmas Tales" is a romp through Shakespeare with holiday settings, but don't expect to guess how the three stories end. "The Dark Ride" follows the wife of a retired high school English teacher who tries to make a go of a Shakespeare-themed amusement park in rural New Hampshire. "Enter Friar Stage Left" is a contemporary re-telling of Romeo and Juliet, (youth group caroling party to twelfth night) from the clergy perspective. "The Shakespeare Reader" introduces Ben, who fancies himself a sleuth based on how he recognizes the Shakespeare plots underlying the comings and goings of his Harvard Square neighbors.

Author Biography

Maren C. Tirabassi is the author of eighteen books, most published by Pilgrim Press, including the recent "From the Psalms to the Cloud - Connecting to the Digital Age" with Maria Mankin. She is a former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She can be found at the poetry and global worship blog Gifts in Open Hands at: http: //giftsinopenhands.wordpress.com/ Maren has been a pastor for thirty-five years and currently serves Union United Church of Christ in Madbury, New Hampshire. She leads workshops on creative writing, memoir, liturgy, short fiction and poetry in a range of settings from recovery group to senior center, correctional facility to ESL class. She lives with Don Tirabassi and Willie the beagle in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and she is very fond of Christmas.