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Covering tragedies, comedies and romances, the collection introduces children to iconic characters and stories such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth. Retold by Samantha Newman and Ceej Rowland, the prose simplifies plot and vocabulary while retaining flavours of Shakespeare's original language, making this an ideal introduction to classic literature at home or school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nEach title in this Arcturus Retold Classics collection distils a full Shakespeare play into a compact, engaging paperback story that keeps the essential characters, humour, drama and emotional stakes intact. Young readers can follow Puck's mischief in A Midsummer Night's Dream, tremble at the witches' prophecy in Macbeth, and be swept up in the romance of Romeo and Juliet, all without wrestling with unabridged Elizabethan verse. The sixteen plays span Shakespeare's full range: tragedies like King Lear, Othello and Hamlet; comedies including Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors; and romances such as The Winter's Tale and The Tempest. Presented as a boxed set, the books form a ready-made library that lets children explore Shakespeare's world play by play, building familiarity that will help when they later encounter the original texts at school. 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