That Way Madness Lies: 15 of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined

Ages 12 to 18

Fifteen acclaimed YA writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare’s celebrated classics!

West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. She’s the Man. Warm Bodies. Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of Shakespeare’s most beloved works. Now, some of today’s best writers for teens take on the Bard in these 15 whip-smart and original retellings!

Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining The Merchant of Venice), Kayla Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew), Lily Anderson (As You Like It), Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter’s Tale), Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet), A. R. Capetta and Cori McCarthy (Much Ado About Nothing), Brittany Cavallaro (Sonnet 147), Joy McCullough (King Lear), Anna-Marie McLemore (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Samantha Mabry (Macbeth), Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus), Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night), Lindsay Smith (Julius Caesar), Kiersten White (Romeo and Juliet), and Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (The Tempest).

About the Author

Dahlia Adler (editor) is an editor of mathematics by day, a book blogger by night, and a Young Adult author at every spare moment in between. She is the editor of the anthologies His Hideous Heart (a Junior Library Guild selection) and That Way Madness Lies, and the author of Cool for the Summer. She lives in New York with her family and an obscene number of books.

Contributors include:

Dahlia Adler

Kayla Ancrum

Lily Anderson

Melissa Bashardoust

Patrice Caldwell

A. R. Capetta

Brittany Cavallaro

Joy McCullough

Cori McCarthy

Anna-Marie McLemore

Samantha Mabry

Tochi Onyebuchi

Mark Oshiro

Austin Siegemund-Broka

Lindsay Smith

Kiersten White

Emily Wibberley