A collection of prose retellings of ten familiar Shakespeare plays, each illustrated by an award-winning artist and looking at the essential question: What does it mean to be alive? Contents: "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Hamlet", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Macbeth", "The Tempest", "Othello", "As You Like It", "Romeo and Juliet", "Twelfth Night", and "King Lear".