William Shakespeare

A soldier is told he will be king, and decides not to wait.

A king divides his kingdom by asking his daughters to perform their love.

A shipwrecked woman dresses as a man and immediately makes everything worse.

Four young people run into a wood and are rearranged by something that lives there.

A contested crown, and a mother whose child is taken as leverage.

A court exiles itself into a forest and gets funnier about it.

A general is talked into destroying the one good thing in his life, one insinuation at a time.

A deposed duke runs an island by magic, and has to decide whether to forgive the people who wronged him.

A loan secured with a pound of flesh comes due, and a courtroom argues what mercy is worth.

A grief-sick prince discovers that thinking about murder is easier than doing it.

A deformed schemer decides that if he cannot be loved, he will be feared into a crown.

Honorable men murder a friend to save a republic, and hand it to a demagogue instead.

Two teenagers love faster than their families can hate, and it kills them both.