All the World's Your Stage Shakespeare for Today

Discover the World of Shakespeare through 8 of his Most Famous Plays

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On sale Nov 11, 2025 | 80 Pages | 9798217304554

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Eight exciting Shakespeare retellings, alongside the story of his life and the history of Tudor London, all beautifully illustrated.

Introduce your child to the work of Shakespeare in this gorgeous treasury for all the family to enjoy. By expertly reimagining eight of the bard’s most famous plays, Farah Karim-Cooper breathes new life into these well-loved works. With insightful and engaging storytelling combined with historical context and key themes for each play, readers will discover how Shakespeare gives us tools to think about the world today—and realize that Shakespeare really is for everyone.
Including kid-friendly summaries of:
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Macbeth
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • As You Like It
  • The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
  • The Tempest
  • The Merchant of Venice
© Sarah Lee
Farah Karim-Cooper is a Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe and a professor of literature and Shakespeare studies at King’s College London; she was president of the Shakespeare Association of America from 2021 to 2022 after serving three years on the board of trustees. The holder of an Oxford University TORCH Humanities Cultural Programme Fellowship, she was a visiting fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 2022 to 2023. She curated the Globe Theatre’s Shakespeare and Race festivals and its Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinar series. She is a general coeditor of the Folger Shakespeare Editions and the author of works on Shakespeare including Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage, and most recently Titus Andronicus: The State of Play. View titles by Farah Karim-Cooper

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Eight exciting Shakespeare retellings, alongside the story of his life and the history of Tudor London, all beautifully illustrated.

Introduce your child to the work of Shakespeare in this gorgeous treasury for all the family to enjoy. By expertly reimagining eight of the bard’s most famous plays, Farah Karim-Cooper breathes new life into these well-loved works. With insightful and engaging storytelling combined with historical context and key themes for each play, readers will discover how Shakespeare gives us tools to think about the world today—and realize that Shakespeare really is for everyone.
Including kid-friendly summaries of:
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Macbeth
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • As You Like It
  • The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
  • The Tempest
  • The Merchant of Venice

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© Sarah Lee
Farah Karim-Cooper is a Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe and a professor of literature and Shakespeare studies at King’s College London; she was president of the Shakespeare Association of America from 2021 to 2022 after serving three years on the board of trustees. The holder of an Oxford University TORCH Humanities Cultural Programme Fellowship, she was a visiting fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 2022 to 2023. She curated the Globe Theatre’s Shakespeare and Race festivals and its Anti-Racist Shakespeare webinar series. She is a general coeditor of the Folger Shakespeare Editions and the author of works on Shakespeare including Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama, The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage, and most recently Titus Andronicus: The State of Play. View titles by Farah Karim-Cooper