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Shakespeare Reimagined
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items Shakespeare has been redefining how people fall in love for every generation. His stories have found their way into cultures around the world and even bled themselves into pop culture today. These are all my favorite retellings of Shakespeare’s Class...
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Chloe Gong reimagines Shakespeare’s classic tragedies by transplanting their iconic characters and conflicts into a fantasy-adjacent 1920s Shanghai, preserving the emotional intensity of the originals while reshaping them with modern politics, atmosp...
A paperback boxed set of Chloe Gong's New York Times bestselling These Violent Delights and its sequel, Our Violent Ends--the lush fantasy duology reimagining Romeo and Juliet in 1920s Shanghai.
These Violent Delights Duet: These... book by Chloe Gong
Chloe Gong's adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , is a "smart, imaginative, and brutal" (Wesley Chu, New York Times bestselling author of The War Arts Saga) collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance am...
Immortal Longings book by Chloe Gong
Chloe Gong returns with power plays, spilled blood, and lethal romance in the thrilling fantasy sequel to New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Immortal Longings, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Vilest Things book by Chloe Gong
Inspired by As You Like It, set in 1930s Shanghai.
Foul Lady Fortune book by Chloe Gong
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the "fast-paced...impressive" (Kirkus Reviews) second book in the captivating Foul Lady Fortune duology following an immortal assassin in 1930s Shangha...
Foul Heart Huntsman book by Chloe Gong
The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.
A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has ret...
These Violent Delights book by Chloe Gong
Shanghai is under siege in this "tightly paced" (School Library Journal, starred review) and searingly romantic sequel to These Violent Delights, which New York Times bestselling author Natasha Ngan calls "deliciously dark."
Our Violent Ends book by Chloe Gong
DIFFERENT POV
Shakespeare dramatized even the smallest of characters, these books dive further into our favorite side characters or female perspectives of the same story
Have you ever wondered about the fate of Ophelia? As ambitious and witty as she is beautiful, Ophelia is quick to catch the eye of the captivating prince Hamlet. Their love blossoms in secret, but bloody deeds soon turn Denmark into a place of madnes...
Ophelia book by Lisa M. Klein
Shattering everything we thought we knew about Romeo and Juliet, Fair Rosaline is the spellbinding prequel to Shakespeare's best known tale, which exposes Romeo as a predator with a long history of pursuing much younger girls. Bold, lyrical, and chil...
Fair Rosaline book by Natasha Solomons
This book takes a look at Shakespeare life from his abusive childhood to his sons tragedy. And how it shaped his writings.
Hamnet book by Maggie O'Farrell
The Lady knows the how her eyes induce madness in men.
The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed.
The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game o...
Lady Macbeth
The world knows Ophelia as Hamlet's troubled lover; but behind Shakespeare's tragedy stands a real woman: this is her story . . .
The second novel in the new historical fiction series from the bestselling author of the Queens of Conquest, Joanna Cou...
Fire Queen book by Joanna Courtney
DIFFERENT CULTURES
Following Chloe lead, these stories follow Shakespeares plots deep into other cultural stories
Retelling of King Lear. When a billionaire hotelier and political operator attempts to pit his three daughters against one another, a brutal struggle for primacy begins in this modern-day take on Shakespeare's King Lear. Set in contemporary India, wh...
We That Are Young book by Preti Taneja
FUN
These are just fun and great gifts for your Shakespeare lovers
Shakespeare meets Star Wars in the best way. Perfect for those with a crossover niche obsession with Shakespeare and Star Wars
William Shakespeare's The Empire... book by Ian Doescher
Clueless gets a makeover that Cher Horowitz and the Bard would approve of in this witty retelling of the '90s teen comedy. Cher, the fairest maiden of Bronson Alcott High in Beverly Hills, spends her days merrily match-making and mall-hopping with he...
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Clueless
On Wednesdays we array ourselves in pink Mean Girls gets an Elizabethan makeover in this totally fetch comedy of manners about North Shore High's queen bees, wannabes, misfits, and nerds. Written in the style of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare'...
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls
MODERN TIMES
Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric...
Vinegar Girl book by Anne Tyler
Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he's staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an a...
Hag-Seed book by Margaret Atwood