This Director's Playbook is designed to aid directors in every facet of play production, from organizing a team to developing a coherent vision of a play through set design, costumery, auditions for actors, designing the playbill, making sure that a budget makes sense, with special sections for glossary, entrances and exits, and, most important, lots of blank space to fill in with sketches and notes on every part of every scene. The text is modernized for American students, and is coordinated with actor's reading copies either in cheap paper or ebook format. If you haven't seen this format before, give it a try. Great directors spend a lot of time thinking it all out ahead of time, so that the actors will know what is expected, what is possible. Shakespeare is always exciting, and this play in particular offers wonderful character parts for the witty, the garrulous, the slightly daffy -- and two of the major roles in theater for young actors. The list of Playbooks available: Hamlet (www.createspace.com/3742231) Merchant of Venice (www.createspace.com/3862570) Taming of the Shrew (www.createspace.com/3938142) Twelfth Night (www.createspace.com/3894336) Romeo and Juliet (www.createspace.com/3891241) A Midsummer Night's Dream (www.createspace.com/3893774) Much Ado About Nothing (www.createspace.com/3965392) Macbeth (www.createspace.com/3967549) Othello (www.createspace.com/3963830) As You Like It (www.createspace.com/3940714) Richard III (www.createspace.com/3962607) Henry V (www.createspace.com/3969195)