Consider this the alternative Shakespeare...twenty-three stories created especially for this volume, tales which explore both the life and works of Shakespeare. From the Bard's own deathbed drama with his daughter, to a Queen Lyr from the arachnid kingdom, to a doctor-patient replaying of Rosalind and Orlando, to Titania's search for true love-or at least a truly magical passion, here are tales that would do Shakespeare himself proud...

Edited by Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg

Contents:

• Part One
  • Playbill by Bill Daniel
  • An Augmentation of Dust by Diana Paxson
  • Aweary of the Sun by Gregory Feeley
  • The Will by Barbara Denz
• Part Two
  • The Tragedy of KL by Jack Oakley
  • Ancient Magics, Ancient Hope by Josepha Sherman
  • Queen Lyr by Mark Kreighbaum
  • It Comes from Nothing by Barry Malzberg
  • The Tragedy of Gertrude, Queen of Denmark by Kate Daniel
• Part Three
  • Alas, Me Bleedin... by Dennis McKiernan
  • The Muse Afire by Laura Resnick
  • Titus! by Esther M. Friesner
  • Swear Not by the Moon by Lawrence Schimel
  • The Summer of My Discontent by Mike Resnick
• Part Four
  • Else the Isle with Calibans by Brian Aldiss
  • Face Value by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • No Sooner Sighed by Katherine Lawrence
  • The Mercury of the Wise by Kevin A. Murphy
  • A Tempest in Her Eyes by Charles de Lint
  • Titania or the Celestial Bed by Teresa Edgerton
• Part Five
  • Not of an Age by Gregory Benford
  • The Elements So Mixed by Adrienne Martine-Barnes
  • My Voice Is In My Sword by Kate Elliott