Stories from Shakespeare by Geraldine McCaughrean
These retellings of the Shakespeare plays children are most likely to encounter capture the atmosphere, drama and humour of the originals while at the same time making them accessible and highly readable. Included are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest.