Author(s): Jan Dean

English & Drama - children

The collection aims to make the best of Shakespearean theatre accessible to a younger audience whilst providing great stories to read. There's trouble afoot in the court of Duke Frederick. Feuding brother Orlando falls in love with the Duke's niece Rosalind, but she must leave the court with her cousin Celia to escape her tyrannical uncle. Orlando also flees from the Duke into the forest of Arden, but just to confuse things, Rosalind is disguised as the boy Gannymede and cannot claim his love. Will the magical forest put things right?