Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Korman, Gordon

Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Carrell, Jennifer Lee.

Summary: Shakespeare scholar Kate Stanley is given a mysterious box that holds the first piece in a Shakespeare puzzle; however, before she sets out on the trail of a 400-year-old mystery, the Globe Theater burns and a body is found, murdered in the manner of Hamlet's father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Claybourne, Anna

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a Division of EDC Publishing 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 822.33 CLA

O'Farrell, Maggie

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'FA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'FA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OFA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FiC OFA

Ellinas, Georghia

Summary: A picture book retelling of William Shakespeare's play, Twelfth night, a comedy centering on mistaken identities and unrequited love, set in the kingdom of Illyria.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELL

Hicks, Deron R.

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Colophon Letterford and her cousin Julian continue their quest to uncover their family's treasure as new clues lead them to Oxford, England, seeking to unravel a connection to Christopher Marlowe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIC

West, Jacqueline

Summary: "After waking up in the hospital, Jaye returns to school to discover a mysteriously familiar boy in her class and the trappings of Shakespeare's plays all around her"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WES

Shakespeare, William

Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHA

Trow, M. J.

Summary: Second in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series - November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered leader, William the Silent. However, travelling in disguise as part of a troupe of Egyptian players, Marlowe...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRO

Hawke, Simon.

Summary: Out of work because of the plague, fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and would-be thespian Symington Smythe become involved in the murder of a wealthy merchant trader by a young craftsman, a situation that inspires a new play.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Summary: "Capped by one of the most famous speeches ever written, Shakespeare's Henry V recalls a truly great English victory. With comic sub-plots to be found among Henry's soldiers, the production boasts some terrific performances - including Sam Cox as the 'splendidly unhinged' Pistol (The Daily Telegraph). In the title role is Jamie Parker, who 'casts such a rapt spell that you feel the entire...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Summary: King Henry, now in failing health and still embroiled in war, sends his second son Prince John of Lancaster to the battle. Prince John tricks and defeats the enemy while his older son, the Prince of Wales, is summoned away from Falstaff and his tavern circle to the king's bedside where he assumes the throne upon the death of the king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1987

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HEN

Lovett, Charles C.

Summary: "Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOV

Kaplow, Robert.

Summary: "This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles's pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. and it was the week I changed my middle name twice"--Quotation from back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAP

Carreras, Hernán

Summary: In this graphic version of Shakespeare's play, teenagers Romeo and Juliet, from rival families in Verona, fall deeply in love, with tragic consequences for both the Montagues and the Capulets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CAR

Stanley, Diane

Summary: "Prince Alexos, the long-awaited champion of the goddess Athene, follows the course of his destiny through war and loss and a deadly confrontation with his enemy to its end: shipwreck on a magical, fog-shrouded island. There he meets the unforgettable Aria and faces the greatest challenge of his life. Based loosely on Shakespeare's The Tempest"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STA

Sharratt, Mary

Summary: Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Shakespeare, William

Summary: Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of Shakespeare's play of the tragic consequences of a deadly feud between two rival families in Renaissance Verona.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 SHA

Chadwick, Elizabeth.

Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Summary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALL

Summary: Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHA

Garfield, Leon.

Summary: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1985

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Leveen, Lois

Summary: A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Leveen 2014

Summary: Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OTH

chat loading...
Back to Top