Shakespeare by Any Other Name is a collection of
two-act plays for teenagers. Set in different time
periods and places, their plots, nevertheless, mirror
the story lines of five favorite plays by Shakespeare:
Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, As
You Like It, and Cymbeline. "Circle Dance" delivers the
zany bewilderment of love that one might see in
Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. "Bob Weaver and the
Teen Angel" takes its characters and plot from Midsummer
Night's Dream. True to the setting of the play, all of
its musical numbers are top of the chart songs of the
1960s. "The Gentle Art of Reappearing" which parallels
Shakespeare's last play The Tempest, involves a
different kind of storm on the island of Galveston,
Texas. "Games" gives the audience a modern look at
Shakespeare's As You Like It with a delightful romantic
romp through another Forest of Arden, the piney woods of
East Texas. As a spin-off of Cymbeline, "Imogen's War"
takes place in 1918 in England and France at the end of
WW I with the signing of the Armistice and the
resolution of a family feud. For adolescent lovers of
Shakespeare, these plays offer a twist from the classic
versions of his plays. Not to be confused as
alternatives-the Bard is inimitable-Shakespeare by any
other name might still seem as sweet.
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