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.