William Shakespeare

Publisher

The Wellfleet Press

Pub. Date

c1987

Physical Desc

3 v. (liv, 1725 p., [51] leaves of plates) : ports. ; 28 cm.

22) The annotated Shakespeare

Author

Publisher

C.N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers

Pub. Date

c1978

Physical Desc

3 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.

23) Beautiful stories from Shakespeare for children: being a choice collection from the world's greatest classic writer

Author

Publisher

Barnes & Noble

Pub. Date

1907.

Physical Desc

317 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Description

Short adaptations of twenty of Shakespeare's plays, including familiar quotations and a brief biography of Shakespeare.

24) Teach the torches to burn: a Romeo & Juliet remix

Author

Roehrig, Caleb

Series

Remixed classics volume 7

Publisher

Feiwel & Friends

Pub. Date

2023.

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

New York Review children's collection

In Verona, Italy, gay teens Romeo and Valentine discover first love amid a bloody, centuries-old feud, putting themselves in danger of losing each other forever.

25) Shakespeare stories

Author

Garfield, Leon

Series

Description

"How to introduce kids to Shakespeare--not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of his language and the depth of his characters. That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, a wonderful children's book writer, undertook to meet in his monumental and delightful Shakespeare Stories. Here are twenty-one of the Bard's plays, presented in what is not a series of dry retellings, but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories, in a way...

26) Much ado about nothing

Author

Rediscovered Book
Plays
New Folger Library Shakespeare
No fear Shakespeare
More Series...

Series

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Kindle

Description

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

27) New boy

Author

Chevalier, Tracy

Series

Pub. Date

[2017]

Formats

Book, Large Print

Description

A poignant, unforgettable adaptation of Othello set in the fierce world of preadolescent children, where the grown-up forces of love and jealousy, and the hurt of being ostracized, can be as real and as devastating as for any adult. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day--so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't...

28) Vinegar girl: The taming of the shrew retold

Author

Tyler, Anne

Series

Publisher

Hogarth Shakespeare

Pub. Date

[2016]

Physical Desc

237 pages ; 21 cm.

Description

Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."

29) Requiem of the Rose King

Author

Kanno, Aya

Series

Requiem of the rose king volume 14

Publisher

Viz Media, LLC

Pub. Date

2014-

Physical Desc

1 volume : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm

Description

In medieval England, during the age of the wars of the roses, a fierce battle rages between the House of York and the House of Lancaster. Young Richard of the House of York is determined that his family will ascend the throne but he's hiding a secret that could destroy everything he desires.

30) Hag-seed: The tempest retold

Author

Atwood, Margaret

Series

Publisher

Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Pub. Date

[2016]

Physical Desc

xiii, 301 pages ; 21 cm.

Description

Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After 12 years...

31) William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream

Author

Coville, Bruce

Description

A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about the strange events that take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically transform the romantic fate of two young couples.

32) Macbeth

Author

Nesbø, Jo

Series

Publisher

Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Pub. Date

[2018]

Physical Desc

446 pages ; 25 cm.

33) Romeo and Juliet

Author

Timeless Shakespeare
Differentiated Timeless Classics
Sourcebooks Shakespeare
Plays
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Series

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Kindle

Description

Romeo, who is a member of the house of Montague, falls in love with the beautiful Juliet, a member of the house of Capulet. The Montagues and the Capulets have been engaged in a feud for many years and as such the love between Romeo and Juliet is a forbidden one.

34) The porpoise: a novel

Author

Haddon, Mark

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

305 pages ; 25 cm

Description

"A fantastical novel which reworks Shakespeare's 'Pericles' into a parable for today"--

35) Hamlet for kids

Author

Burdett, Lois

Series

Shakespeare can be fun!

Publisher

Firefly Books

Pub. Date

2000

Physical Desc

64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 25 cm.

36) Juliet's nurse: a novel

Author

Leveen, Lois

Publisher

Emily Bestler Books/Atria

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

375 pages ; 24 cm

Description

A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappelletti's darkest secrets. Those secrets--and the nurse's...

37) Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for kids

Author

Kelso, Brendan P

Series

Playing with plays volume 1

Publisher

Playing With Plays

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

101 pages.

Description

"Midsummer like you have never read it before: fun and easy to understand. Designed for 9-20+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone who wants to enjoy and loosely understand Shakespeare's play."--Amazon.com.

38) Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for kids: 3 short melodramatic plays for 3 group sizes

Author

Kelso, Brendan P

Series

Playing with plays presents volume Book 2

Publisher

Playing with Pub

Pub. Date

2020

Physical Desc

50 p. ; 21 cm.

Description

This delightfully funny rendition of Shakespeare's full length play is easy for kids and adults to understand. There are actual lines from Shakespeare's script and creatively funny interpretations of the remaining script. This mini melodramatic masterpiece is sure to be a doorway for your child to love all the classics.

39) Dunbar

Author

St. Aubyn, Edward

Series

Publisher

Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

Pub. Date

[2017]

Physical Desc

244 pages ; 22 cm.

Description

Shakespeare the animated tales

Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills,...

40) Romeo and Juliet

Author

Garfield, Leon

Series

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Pub. Date

1993

Physical Desc

48 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Description