Stories from Shakespeare

Murderers, mad kings, mistaken identities, shipwrecks, soldiers, swordfights, ghosts, witches and feuds, they're all here in stories to haunt, delight and sometimes chill you to the bone.

These stirring retellings of ten of the best-known plays are a brilliant way to discover Shakespeare, with ingenious use of quotations from the play to make them even more vivid.

Romeo and Juliet, Henry the Fifth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and The Tempest.