- TERRY DEARY"S BEST EVER SHAKESPEARE TALES tells you more than just what happens in everyone"s favourite Shakespeare plays - it tells you the stories behind them. Find out about: A Midsummer Night"s Dream, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth and Hamlet. From how the plays were originally staged to what Shakespeare himself might have thought of his work being taught in schools - there"s so much to find out.