William Shakespeare
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Growing up on a island where the powerful Prosper family controls both the magic and the spirits who inhibit it, eighteen-year-old Mae longs for magic of her own to impress her best friend Coco and her crush Miles, but when the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae and her friends start to the unravel the mysteries of the island and a secret from Mae's past. Loosely based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and set in the 1920s.
83) Macbeth
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure! William Shakespeare's Hamlet has finally been restored to its original second-person non-linear branching narrative format. Now it's up to you to decide what happens next. Play as Hamlet and revenge your father's death. Play as Ophelia and make scientific discoveries. Play as King Hamlet, Sr. and die on the first page!
86) Othello
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences. Includes background information, character summary, and commonly asked questions.
90) Twelfth night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A retelling in rhymed couplets of Shakespeare's comedy about the loves of the twins Viola and Sebastian is accompanied by illustrations created by second graders.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sex and power drive the action of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Set in today's British army this is a modern realization of a classic problem play where every character must justify their own private morality in a world bereft of discipline and authority. Critics rave that this contemporary dramatization is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What if Romeo never met Juliet? What if Juliet got really buff instead of moping around the castle all day? What if they teamed up to take over Verona with robot suits? You get to decide if there should be romance, epic fight scenes... or robot suits! Packed with exciting choices, fun puzzles, secret surprises, terrible puns, and more than a billion possible storylines, you'll discover a new experience every time you read it. It's the first book with...
94) Henry V
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A presentation of William Shakespeare's chronicle play, Henry V, in which he attempted to present a full-length portrait of the ideal king in action, and used his loftiest rhetoric to this purpose.
95) Romeo & Juliet
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A prose retelling of Shakespeare's drama in which young lovers attempt to defy fate.
96) Hag-seed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded, and his reputation is second to none. Now he is about to stage a Tempest like no other; not only will it dazzle audiences, it will heal emotional wounds. At least that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix finds himself living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved...
Author
Series
Arden High volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Vi came to Arden High for a fresh start and a chance to wear beanies and button-ups instead of uniform skirts. And though doing it without her twin feels like being split in half, Vi finds her stride when she stumbles (literally!) into broody and beautiful poet-slash-influencer, Orsino. Soon Vi gets roped into helping plan the school's Twelfth Grade Night dance, and she can't stop dreaming about slow dancing with Orsino under the fairy lights in the...