Fifteen acclaimed YA writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare’s celebrated classics!
West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. Kiss Me, Kate. Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of Shakespeare’s most beloved works. Now, some of today’s best writers for teens take on the Bard in these 15 whip-smart and original retellings!
We all know Shakespeare's stories and phrases, whether we know it or not. Fifteen authors have picked their favourite story - and in one case, sonnet - and reimagined it with present, or occasionally past or future, characters and settings. The result is an incredible mix of new interpretations of this stories.
Ok, don't shoot me, but; I'm not a huge Shakespeare fan. I appreciate that he was amazingly brilliant and that the plays are wonderful ruminations on humanity at its best and worst. I've just never really enjoyed them.
But I did enjoy these short stories. Some more than others, as always with short story collections, but none were any less than interesting and some were fascinating. I think I liked Macbeth best, but Romeo and Juliet had a wonderfully creepy tone! I would also love to read more of the King Lear featured here, it's really intriguing.
This is a great collection and would make a fabulous accompaniment to the script of any of the featured plays. Wonderful.
That Way Madness Lies publishes on the 16th of March, 2021. I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
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