A collection of prose retellings of ten familiar Shakespeare plays, each illustrated by a well-known artist or artists.

Presents stories that are at the heart of seven of Shakespeare's masterpieces.

A brief biography of the world's most famous playwright, using only historically correct information.

"During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classrooom, where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in."--T.p. verso.

Presents the life of William Shakespeare, describing his early years, his development as a poet and playwright, and the historical context in which he lived and worked.

To Lexi Poole, a new school year means baking with her BFFs in the Cupcake Club. But the club president, Kylie, is mixing things up by inviting new members. And Lexi is cast in the school's production of Romeo and Juliet, with her secret crush playing Romeo.

Fifteen-year-old celebrity chef Neil Flambé is summoned to England to solve a Shakesperian mystery.

Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family have moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century who needs his help to finish a quest, a quest somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.

Tells the story of the well-known playwright, William Shakespeare, and of the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his works were performed.

Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.