These adapted plays, each between 5 and 25 minutes long, will instill a love of Shakespeare and boost literacy skills! Included are 2 Holiday Performance scripts, a program for easy staging, costumes, and a Shakespeare Festival or reading-only performances. Character roles are written at easy, moderate and challenging reading levels. Reading comprehension and writing activities for each play, and teacher and student self-assessment rubrics also provided. Plays: Henry V, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, The Tempest (Holiday Adaptation), Twelfth Night (Holiday Adaptation). 80 pages. Reproducible. Grades 2-4