10 Stories From Shakespeare

10 Stories from Shakespeare is specially written for lower secondary students. The

book contains a carefully selected compilation of William Shakespeare’s most famous

plays, retold in story form.

Written with close attention to detail and textual accuracy, these lively stories capture

the spirit of the original plays and provide the younger reader with an enjoyable

introduction to the complex and profoundly moving universe inhabiting Shakespeare’s

dramatic works.

The plays that have been included have been chosen from a cross- section of genres,

ranging from the comic humour and light-hearted romances of Twelfth Night, As You

Like it and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which mistaken identities play a part and

the fairy world is intertwined with that of mere mortals; through the more sombre

romances of Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and The Winter’s Tale, where

more serious themes are treated; and to the dark tragedies of great yet flawed heroes

in Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet and King Lear. The plays hold a mirror to our own

world, We see the full range of human emotions displayed: greed, passion, selfless

love, pain, grief, joy, envy, ambition, hatred . . . and are challenged to know ourselves

and our world a little better.