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, easy costume ideas, 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: Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors (Holiday Adaptation), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Holiday Adaptation). 80 pages. Grades 4-6