Shakespeare Childrens Collection: Includes King Lear, Hamlet, the Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello

Hamlet I read, it's really good because he manages to kill Claudius who is the traitor

This book is fiction. I do like most of the characters in this book . I do recommend this book it's a great book for kids .

Loved watching this too

Fantastic books.

The book I'm going to talk about is Much Ado About Nothing. A main theme is love because Benedick, who is a companion of Don Pedro is in love with Beatrice. Don Pedro comes back with his two companions Benedick and Claudio from battle to rest in a a house belonging to Lenato, Governor of Messina. After a while, two girls came running down some stairs to greet them .One was called Hero and the other girl was called Beatrice. Benedick kept on mocking Beatrice. After, there was a ball, where everyone was dancing. Beatrice and Benedick had rabbit masks and Beatrice pretended to not know Benecick and he heard her true feelings about him while Claudio could not confess his love to Hero so Don Pedro helped him and then planed a wedding. Hero was found dead during the wedding and they buried her until she came and rearranged the wedding and they got remarried once again. Overall, this book was a blast

I likeed some bites but some bits were quite dark

I would recommend it to everyone
I liked Hippolyta the queen of the amazons

Othello was my favourite to read.

I read Midsummer Nights Dream and it's basically a full on love story and is really funny how everything comes together. I did not like the King and my favourite character was Puck, because he is an Elf. The King was too mean to be liked.

Hamlet was filled with suspense and it showed that even though he acted like he was going mad, there was a reason behind it.

I found this story hard to get into. I have tried 2 books from the series now and I don’t think they are for me.

I liked this book because there was fairies and I thought it was a good story. My favourite character was Titania because she was a fairy and she had powers!

This book is fiction and at the end of story all the people were killed . It made a sad feeling to the reader

A brilliant introduction to anybody who has never read any works by William Shakespeare or thinks maybe it may be too difficult to understand. This is very definitely me. I was never in the top set at school to study English Literature and what I did read independently was too difficult for me to understand. However, these books are a brilliant. They are short/condensed stories and are very easy to read and follow. The books tell you who the characters in the play are with also a bit of background info about them. The books have pictures to help you visualise the story as it progresses. At the end of the book there is factual information about behind the story and factual information about the Globe theatre in London. A great starting point for anyone wanting to read something completely different. I now feel I can walk taller knowing I can hold conversations with actors and playwrights about the works of Shakespeare (if I knew any!!).

Much ado about nothing

A fantastic book to read

Hamlet was a bit gruesome but it’s interesting that the characters all have a different way of the story and that they all have very mind boggling roles. I like that Hamlet sees a ghost in the orchard and hears some unexpected things that he cannot tell if it is true or not and the fact that he has just found out that his uncle is not who Hamlet thought he was to be.

I really like Hamlet and my favourite character is Hamlet too!

I would recommend it to somebody else.
My Favorite character was the ghost of Hamlets DAD.

It was amazing but I did not really like all of the murder. I did like the fight at the end though.

It was romantic, about a witted lady (Beatrice) who fell in love with a kind man (Benedick), Beatrice was impolite to Benedick at first but after a while they fell in love

I read Hamlet from this collection. I quite enjoyed it but a lot of people died.

Othliea was my favourite because she seems nice. I would recommend it.

The one problem is dying. in almost every book, the men who the women fall in love with die. And because of this, the women kill themselves. apart from the fact that in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet has to fake that she is dead just to be with Romeo. Romeo believes that she is dead as the plan went wrong and kills himself with poison. Juliet then stabs herself with a knife to die with him. They were both buried in one grave.

would recommend to Shakespeare fan. Some stories are about romance, others gore, some about magic and all of the others are yours to find out. A pretty good range of books.

Some of them were a bit romantic.
My favourite one was A Midsummer Nights Dream.

Hamlet.
A king gets killed by a snake, but it isn’t actually a snake it’s his brother who pours poison in his ear. Hamlet is the kings son, he meets his dead fathers spirit telling him that his uncle killed him.
I liked the book.
Fun fact, the lion king is based on Hamlet!

Much ado about nothing is a love story that starts with some haters and then they turn into some love birds in exactly two nights by there cousins getting married I recommend this book to people that like love stories.

I thought the book was interesting because there was an enchanted forest which was full of magic and faries.

It was fiction and my favourite character was Oberon.

The Book was interesting because of all the magic.

I wouldn't recommend the book to someone because it says that humans are made to love the wrong partner.

i would recommend it, it was worded well for my age group instead of being written in Shakespeare's style. my favourite character was Ophelia

A midsummer nights dream. Favorite character was pug the elf. Recommended this to 5-8 year olds.