Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. David Nicholls's amusing adaptation transplants Shakespeare's characters from Messina to a TV newsroom on the English coast ...

Shakespeare Retold is a series of ten stories written by well-known children’s authors. Each story is inspired by or based on a play by William Shakespeare. These are not straight retellings but ...

Read by Verity-May Henry. The Taming of the Shrew is Shakespeare’s controversial ‘battle of the sexes’ comedy. The notion of ‘taming’ a woman being unsuitable for today’s audience ...

He sets down his Wild at Heart elephant rifle and tries to pick up a supermodel in this modern take on Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Some people have painful memories (or no ...

Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. This programme is inspired by The Tempest, which is thought to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote. Some of its speeches and themes are seen as an explicit farewell ...

Read by David Gyasi. Henry V is Shakespeare’s famed history play. This version of the story is told by Pistol – one of the comic characters in Shakespeare’s play. Pistol takes on the role of ...

Read by Shirley Henderson. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare’s magical, romantic comedy. In this retelling of the story by Laura Dockrill, Puck takes centre stage. In Shakespeare’s ...

This story is based on The Merchant of Venice, which is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’, containing elements of tragidrama and comedy which are difficult to reconcile.

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedies. With its mixture of murder, ghosts, witchcraft and general mayhem, it is always a huge hit with Primary-aged children. In this adaptation ...