That Way Madness Lies

Fifteen acclaimed YA writers put a modern spin on Shakespeare's celebrated classics—"From comedy to tragedy to sonnet, from texts to storms to prom, this collection is a knockout" (BuzzFeed, Best Book of the Year).

A Bank Street Best Young Adult Book of the Year

A BookPage Most Anticipated Book of the Year

West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. Kiss Me, Kate. Contemporary audiences have always craved re-imaginings of Shakespeare's most beloved works. Now, some of today's best writers for teens take on the Bard in these fifteen whip-smart and original retellings!

Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining The Merchant of Venice), Kayla Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew), Lily Anderson (All's Well That Ends Well), Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter's Tale), Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet), A.R. Capetta and Cory 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).

"Queer and diverse, this Shakespeare anthology takes 15 of the Bard's most iconic works and builds an eclectic collection that successfully subverts the original white heteronormative canon. . . . Built-in curriculum potential and excellent representation mean school libraries in particular will find this anthology a worthy purchase." —School Library Journal

"A spectacular, spellbinding Shakespearean collection that you will fall deeply in love with. Each tale is a gem in the glittering crown of this anthology, which is one of the best I've ever read." —The Nerd Daily