Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...

"A handsome new suitor. A secret. A loyal baron's son. Betrayal. New dangers are concealed in the woods ... far worse than she imagined. Darrenberg is safe again, so Scarlett's father proposes a suitor. Despite her complicated feelings for Kolton, the young man who works for her father, Scarlett accepts the suitor's offer of courtship. When the rich, handsome suitor arrives from Ireland, Scarlett is surprised to discover his sense of adventure matches...