All the World's Your Stage Shakespeare for Today: Discover the World of Shakespeare through 8 of his Most Famous Plays

Written by Farah Karim-Cooper

Introduce your child to the work of Shakespeare in this gorgeous treasury for all the family to enjoy.??

By expertly reimagining eight of the bard’s most famous plays, Farah Karim-Cooper breathes new life into these well-loved works. With insightful and engaging storytelling combined with historical context and key themes for each play, listeners will discover how Shakespeare gives us tools to think about the world today – and realize that Shakespeare really is for everyone.
Including kid-friendly summaries of:
* Romeo and Juliet
* Macbeth
* The Tragedy of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
* A Midsummer Night’s Dream
* As You Like It
* The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
* The Tempest
* The Merchant of Venice

Alex Waldmann is a theatre actor that has acted in the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe productions of Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi. When he is not mesmerising us on stage you may recognise him from the Star Wars series Andor. Alex is perfect for this role as he brings his Shakespeare knowledge to bringing these plays to life.??

© 2025 Farah Karim-Cooper (P) 2025 DK Audio

• Language: English
• Publisher: DK Children
• Release date: Nov 11, 2025
• ISBN: 9798217139637

Farah Karim-Cooper

Farah Karim-Cooper is Professor of Shakespeare Studies, King’s College London and Co-Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe, where she has worked for over sixteen years. Farah has recently served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America and is on the Advisory Council for the Warburg Institute and the Council for the Society of Renaissance Studies. She led the architectural enquiries into early modern theatres at Shakespeare’s Globe, overseeing the research into the design and construction of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the Globe’s indoor Jacobean theatre. She has written two Shakespearean scholarship books published by Arden, and published over 40 chapters in books, reviews and articles and is a General Editor for Arden’s Shakespeare in the Theatre series.