The Best-loved Plays of Shakespeare

Ten plays -- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Macbeth -- are presented in easy-to-read story form. For older readers there are quotations, analyses of the main characters, and information about the Elizabethan theater. Profusely illustrated, this is a storybook as well as a book for anyone going to see the plays, who wants to know more about them, or has to do Shakespeare at school. This is the best-selling children's Shakespeare book at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford-on-Avon.