Introduction 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 ...

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 ...

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy. In Hamlet Lives Forever by Horatio Clare, Shakespeare is telling the story of Hamlet to his son Hamnet, who died at the age of eleven. Shakespeare ...

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 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 ...

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.

This programme is based on Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy of star-crossed lovers. In this funny, modern-day re-telling, we meet two rival schools: St Montagues High and Capulet ...

Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear and his daughters, with many secondary characters in Shakespeare’s complex original not making an appearance.

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 ...

This story is based on Othello, Shakespeare’s intense tragedy of love and jealousy. In this modern day re-telling, the story is relocated to a high school. The theme of racial prejudice against ...