Illustrated Story Collections This is a wonderful collection of six retellings of William Shakespeare"s best-loved plays - a perfect mix of comedy, tragedy, magic and romance, retold for younger readers. It is full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme. It contains the plays: A Midummer Night"s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night. It also includes a section at the back on the life and times of Shakespeare.