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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARClaybourne, Anna
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a Division of EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 822.33 CLAO'Farrell, Maggie
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FiC OFAEllinas, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELLHicks, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICWest, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WESShakespeare, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SparkNotes 2003
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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 822.33 SHATrow, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROHawke, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 1987
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS HENLovett, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVKaplow, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAPCarreras, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CARStanley, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STASharratt, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAShakespeare, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 SHAChadwick, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALLSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHAGarfield, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 1985
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2014