This is a wonderful collection of retellings of six of William Shakespeare's best-loved plays - a perfect mix of comedy, tragedy, magic and romance - retold for younger readers. Full of colourful illustrations from the "Usborne Young Reading Programme". It contains "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Tempest" and "Twelfth Night". It includes a section at the back on the life and times of William Shakespeare. It comes now in a shrink-wrapped, luxurious cloth-bound edition, making it a gift to treasure.

 

This book is part of a book series called Illustrated Story Collections .

There are 416 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.