Series: Staged

A Midsummer Night's Dream is part of the new Puffin Classics collection entitled STAGED, which features timeless tropes and enduring stories. 'The course of true love never did run smooth ...' Hermia loves Lysander. But she must marry Demetrius or be condemned to life in a convent. Together, they plan to elope to escape their fate. However, Helena, Hermia's best...

Staged - Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'We that are true lovers run into strange capers.' Banished from her ambitious uncle's court, the lovesick Rosalind flees to the forest with her cousin, Celia. Disguised as shepherds, they soon meet the dashing Orlando, who is forced into hiding by a plot against his life and heartbroken...

STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, discovers his father was murdered, he swears vengeance against the killer—his father's brother, Claudius, who has married Hamlet's mother and taken the throne. Furious at this betrayal, Hamlet devises a complex plot to reveal the truth...

STAGED - Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection. I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. Love, deception and discord are flourishing in the court of Messina. Sweet, innocent Hero and the famed soldier Claudio are immediately infatuated, while the bickering Beatrice and Benedick can agree on just one...

Staged - Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection It will have blood, they say- blood will have blood. On a bleak, stormy night, three witches prophesy - Macbeth will be a lord twice-over, Macbeth will be king, Banquo's sons will be kings. When their predictions start to come true, the ambitious Lady Macbeth vows to help...

STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless 'For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.' A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees. After a chance meeting...

STAGED: Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a Shakespeare collection for YA readers 'There is a tide in the affairs of men.' Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of power and betrayal. It's lonely at the top. As the triumphant General Julius Caesar's power continues to grow, so too does a plot to undo him. Contrived by enemies, joined by friends, it is the...

STAGED: Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a Shakespeare collection for YA readers Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content. Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of jealousy and miscommunication. Jealousy is a hell of a drug. After being passed over for promotion, the envious flag-bearer Iago begins a vicious campaign of whispers against his leader, the famed Black Venetian General, Othello. As Iago's manipulation...

Staged: Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a Shakespeare collection for YA readers O time, thou must untangle this, not I. Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of crossed loves and mistaken identities. Love gets complicated. After a catastrophic shipwreck, identical twins Viola and Sebastian are separated, each believing that the other is dead. To get her life back on track, Viola begins dressing...

The Merchant of Venice: Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a Shakespeare collection for YA readers. All that glisters is not gold. Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of bitterness and retribution. Bitterness begets blood. Bassiano is in love with the gorgeous heiress Portia! Alas, he's too poor to pass the suitors' test set by her father. Fortunately, Bassiano's best friend, Antonio, steps up...

STAGED: Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a Shakespeare collection for YA readers 'They told me I was everything: 'tis a lie' Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of power and treachery. The price for power is paid in blood. The ageing King Lear must divide his kingdom between his daughters; but who to choose? Goneril and Regan, who love him loudly and flatter...

The Tempest: Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a Shakespeare collection for YA readers "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." Rediscover Shakespeare's tale of exile and forgiveness. What goes around, comes around. Prospero, the usurped Duke of Milan, was doomed to live out his life on a small island with his daughter, Miranda, and his magical servants Ariel and Caliban....