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The noted actors Juliet Stephenson and Michael Sheen retell ten of Shakespeare's most famous works in modern English prose. The stories, including Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Henry V, incorporate lines of dialogue from the original plays and key plot points are explained. Age 9+

Clever, self-satisfied and interfering, Emma Woodhouse is determined to arrange marriages for her friends, while avoiding one for herself; but the matchmaking finds both Emma and her protégé, poor Harriet, caught in a web of misunderstandings. Abridged.