"Fifteen celebrated authors put a modern spin on William Shakespeare's belove classics for a new generation"--page 4 of cover.

Comedies."Severe weather warning" / by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, reimagining The tempest -- "Shipwrecked" / by Mark Oshiro, Twelfth night -- "Taming of the soul mate" / by K. Ancrum, The taming of the shrew -- "King of the fairies" / by Anna-Marie McLemore, A midsummer night's dream -- "We have seen better days" / by Lily Anderson, As you like it -- "Some other metal" / by A. R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy, Much ado about nothing -- "I bleed" / by Dahlia Adler, The merchant of Venice -- A sonnet. "His invention" / by Brittany Cavallaro, Sonnet 147 -- Tragedies. "Partying is such sweet sorrow" / by Kiersten White, Romeo and Juliet -- "Dreaming of the dark" / by Lindsay Smith, Julius Caesar -- "The tragedy of Cory Lanez: an oral history" / by Tochi Onyebuchi, Coriolanus -- "Out of the storm" / by Joy McCullough, King Lear -- "Elsinore" by Patrice Caldwell, Hamlet -- "We fail" / by Samantha Mabry, Macbeth -- Late romance. "Lost girl" / by Melissa Bashardoust, The winter's tale.