Tag Archives: Hamlet

Fave Five: Shakesqueer, Part II

For part I, click here.

Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig (historical m/m YA Romeo & Juliet)

Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Horton Booth (text), Stephanie Kate Strohm (text), and Jamie Green (art) (contemporary YA fantasy graphic novel Twelfth Night)

Ben and Beatriz by Katalina Gamarra (pan m/f contemp rom Much Ado About Nothing)

The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu (sci-fi thriller Hamlet)

Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese (pan m/f contemp rom Much Ado About Nothing)

Bonus: The followup to Twelfth Grade NightKing Cheer (contemporary YA graphic novel King Lear), releases in October.

Fave Five: Queer YA Takes on Shakespeare

As I Descended by Robin Talley (Macbeth)

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake (Twelfth Night)

Nothing Happened by Molly Booth (Much Ado About Nothing)

Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig (Hamlet)

That Way Madness Lies ed. by Dahlia Adler (an anthology containing a number of queer retellings)