During her career popular children’s writer Edith Nesbit collaborated on over sixty books of fiction for children. In ‘Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare’ she turns her attention to a series of interpretations of William Shakespeare’s works. These retellings of Shakespeare’s plays are written in a way that can be easily understood by and entertaining to young readers. ‘Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare’ includes a short biography of Shakespeare, a pronunciation guide, a list of famous quotations, and retellings of the following plays: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ‘ ‘The Tempest, ‘ ‘As You Like It, ‘ ‘The Winter’s Tale, ‘ ‘King Lear, ‘ ‘Twelfth Night, ‘ ‘Much Ado About Nothing, ‘ ‘Romeo and Juliet, ‘ ‘Pericles, ‘ ‘Hamlet, ‘ ‘Cymbeline, ‘ ‘Macbeth, ‘ ‘The Comedy of Errors, ‘ ‘The Merchant of Venice, ‘ ‘Timon of Athens, ‘ ‘Othello, ‘ ‘The Taming of the Shrew, ‘ ‘Measure for Measure, ‘ ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona, ‘ and ‘All’s Well That Ends Well.’