An accessible adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Growing wary of Caesar’s ambition and his popularity with the people, the statesman Brutus is pressured to join a plot to assassinate the would-be king.

An accessible adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Young Romeo meets Juliet at a masquerade and immediately falls in love. Although their families are mortal enemies, when she returns his love, they plot to marry.

An accessible adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello. After Othello promotes another man over him, the wicked Iago plots revenge.

An accessible adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The prince returns home to find that his mother has quickly remarried his uncle after his father, the king, suddenly died. The ghost of his father reveals the depth of his uncle’s treachery.

An accessible adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III. The malformed Duke of Gloucester manipulates and murders his way to the throne.

An accessible adaptation of Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra. Anthony, like Caesar before him, is mesmerized by Cleopatra, and begins to let his duties to Rome slip away.

A lawyer is invited to move to an exclusive, ideal community. His brother, a reporter, investigates the disappearance of a pair hold-up men there.

In late 19th-century Europe, an aspiring architect is swept up into circus life when he goes to collect his inheritance from his father.

In the seedy part of the city, a righteous woman, who elicits lust from every man who sees her, finds refuge at a boarding house. The boarding house owner becomes suspicious when the murders start piling up.

A married woman seeks to improve her modest life when her friend, who rocketed to success in a year’s time, refers her to the “Transposition” institute.