Shakespearean Whodunnits: Murders and Mysteries Based on Shakespeare’s Plays (1997) Anthology by Mike Ashley (ed. Sun77)
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Overview: The premise behind this anthology is simple. Each author has selected one of Shakespeare’s plays, taken certain key incidents and converted them into a mystery story. Each story remains faithful to Shakespeare’s play. They take place in the same settings and time as the original and include many of the same characters. Occasionally a new character or two has been introduced, but nothing that would seem out of place. Some stories are contemporary with the original play, reworking events from a new perspective to show how things might really have happened: the stories based on King John and Julius Caesar, for example, both do that. Other stories take place a year or more after the original events and consider the consequences of actions in the play: the stories for A Midsummer-Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice both show how the episodes described by Shakespeare set in train events that would lead to murder.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Shakespearean Whodunnits Contents:
INTRODUCTION: Shakespeare’s Mysteries by Mike Ashley
King John – WHEN THE DEAD RISE UP by John T. Aquino
Richard II – THE DEATH OF KINGS by Margaret Frazer
Henry IV – A VILLAINOUS COMPANY by Susanna Gregory
Henry V – THE DEATH OF FALSTAFF by Darrell Schweitzer
Henry VI – A SERIOUS MATTER by Derek Wilson
Richard III – A SHADOW THAT DIES by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
Coriolanus – MOTHER OF ROME by Molly Brown
Timon of Athens – BURIED FORTUNE by Peter T. Garratt
Julius Caesar – CINNA THE POET byTom Holt
Cymbeline – IMOGEN by Paul Barnett
King Lear – SERPENT’S TOOTH by Martin Edwards
Macbeth – TOIL AND TROUBLE by Edward D. Hoch
Hamlet – A SEA OF TROUBLES by Steve Lockley
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream – A MIDSUMMER ECLIPSE by Stephen Baxter
Much Ado about Nothing – MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING by Susan B. Kelly
The Winter’s Tale – WHO KILLED MAMILLIUS? Or Unconsidered Trifles by Amy Myers
Twelfth Night – THIS IS ILLYRIA, LADY by Kim Newman
Romeo and Juliet – STAR-CROSSED by Patricia A. McKillip
The Two Gentlemen of Verona – THE BANISHED MEN by Keith Taylor
The Taming of the Shrew – THE SHREWD TAMING OF LORD THOMAS by Mary Monica Pulver
Othello, The Moor of Venice – NOT WISELY, BUT TOO WELL by Louise Cooper
As You Like It – MURDER AS YOU LIKE IT by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
The Merchant of Venice – THE HOUSE OF RIMMON by Cherith Baldry
Epilogues
AN ENSUING EVIL by Peter Tremayne
THE COLLABORATOR by Rosemary Aitken
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