shakespeare, william

An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.

Presents a simplified text of the Shakespeare play in which two lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their families for one another.

Presents the stories of five of Shakespeare's plays: Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, Henry IV, Henry V, and Julius Caesar.

Fourteen-year-old Gemma Stone struggles to understand her shifting emotions as she gets caught up in her older sister's wedding plans, conquers her nerves to try out for the school play, and gets to know one of the most notorious boys in her class.

A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy about Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young people whose love for one another is doomed by the long-standing feud between their families.

Presents the stories of ten of Shakespeare's best-known plays, including "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "The Merchant of Venice," and includes quotations from the texts, as well as descriptions of each play's main characters.

Provides the sights and sounds of Tudor England as the activities of different classes of Londoners are followed through a day in 1600.

When the school principal promises to kiss a pig if the students read 10,000 books, a girl volunteers Hamlet, her unwilling, Shakespeare-quoting pet pig.

Shakespeare's fourteen comedies and six tragedies retold in prose.