Jeanne Arthur BA (Honours Drama) is a retired teacher of Drama, English and History who was inspired to translate Shakespeare's plays into modern English by her students who asked questions about the plays that were not easy to answer even though she had an honours degree in Drama from Flinders University and thirty years of teaching Drama. Retirement gave Jeanne the time and opportunity to write these translations to answer her students' questions and to allow her to reflect on Shakespeare's plays at a leisurely pace. She believes the outcome of this experience will be helpful to readers, performers and theatre workers as it brings many years of working on Shakespeare's plays and poetry to clarify their meaning and create immediately accessible texts supported by thorough explanatory notes about Shakespeare's world.