I've had this book sitting on my shelf for an embarrassing amount of time and I'm so glad to have finally gotten around to it.

With any anthology, some stories were better than others. I'll go ahead and leave a brief review of each story and content warnings below, but I'd say the standouts of the collection for me were:
I Bleed by Dahlia Adler (The Merchant of Venice), King of the Fairies by Anna-Marie McLemore (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tragedy of Cory Lanez by Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus), and Lost Girl by Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter's Tale).

Severe Weather Warning by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (The Tempest)
Honestly, I was not a fan. It was not much of a Tempest reimagining beyond borrowing a few character names and setting itself during a storm. But even within the story itself, I was uncompelled by the characters' conflicts and didn't understand some of the stakes.
CW: -

Shipwrecked by Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night)
This should've been the first story of the anthology because it set such a wonderful tone and epitomized this anthology. I wasn't the biggest fan of the writing style on a personal note but this was so wonderfully cheesy and silly and queer. It perfectly added a modern, diverse lens onto this classic story.
CW: car accident (past)

Taming of the Soulmate by K. Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew)
The concept of this is giving social media skit and I wish it accomplished a little more but this was cute.
CW: blood, claustrophobia

King of the Fairies by Anna-Marie McLemore (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Anna-Marie... you get it. I've never read any of their writing before now but this absolutely made me want to pick up their other work. I shouldn't be surprised that a queer Latine author known for gorgeous metaphor-driven fantasy and magical realism absolutely crushed the Midsummer retelling, but this absolutely blew me away. Lyrical, vibrant prose that pulls from the Bard's original text with such tact. Tender, poignant characterization that builds its way out and within. A rewoven web of Midsummer's world into something simultaneously recognizable and wholly new. This story both praises and scolds the Bard with equal measure, reckoning with all parts of the text's body.
CW: transphobia, racism

We Have Seen Better Days by Lily Anderson (As You Like It)
This was disappointing tbh. As You Like It has so much delicious world building and character dynamics to pull from, but it feels like Lily Anderson couldn't understand anything beyond two cousins going into a forest and having crushes on two brothers. I did like the forest as a tool of escape, but other than that this was lacking.
CW: alcohol (mention)

Some Other Metal by A. R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy (Much Ado About Nothing)
Really extremely cute. The authors here clearly know Much Ado well and I loooooved the writing style here. It felt modern and heightened at the same time, especially in the dialogue. Did it need to be set in space? No, but go for it I guess.
CW: alcohol

I Bleed by Dahlia Adler (The Merchant of Venice)
There's not much to say about this except that I understand why Dahlia Adler built this entire anthology around the vision of this short story. This absolutely is the beating heart of this collection and Adler was not pulling punches.
CW: antisemitism, white supremacy, racism, emesis, car accident (mention)

His Invention by Brittany Cavallaro (Sonnet 147)
This one actually got me worked up, I'm so mad about it. So this short story is based on one of the Dark Lady sonnets. It's pretty much a majority belief among scholars nowadays that the Dark Lady is Black (or at least, a POC). With that in mind, this sonnet is about the speaker feeling like maybe he's going "mad" or "unwell" because his standards of beauty have been flipped around because he loves a Black woman who he views as "fair" (an early modern ideal that essentially means beautiful but also worthy, but is indeed associated with being a wealthy white woman). So though I think the story on its own is actually good and interesting, I have NO idea what it has to do with this sonnet, and I hate that it ignores literally all the racial discussions in it.
CW: sexual assault, blood

Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow by Kiersten White (Romeo and Juliet)
Okay, this was a pretty basic take on R&J but oh boy was it REALLY well done. Brilliant use of negative space narratively.
CW: suicide (implied), abusive parents, homophobia, drug use, violence, bullying, hospitalization, child death (past), alcoholism (mention)

Dreaming of the Dark by Lindsay Smith (Julius Caesar)
So a couple of years ago, there was this witchy modern sapphic Julius Caesar retelling that was coming out (Take Her Down) and I read an ARC and boy oh boy was I disappointed to find out that it was atrocious. I mention this because this witchy modern sapphic Julius Caesar retelling was anything but. Caesar may have died but this was giving me life! (I only wish it was a full book to truly replace the hole in my heart.)
CW: car accident, blood & gore, death of loved one, grief, alcohol, death, fire (past)

The Tragedy of Cory Lanez by Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus)
Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm currently having an obsession with Coriolanus so my stakes were high for this one. And what an homage to the original text this was. The use of rap culture and intersectional identities as tools to parallel the original story was nothing short of brilliant and it was so well executed. Onyebuchi never lost sight of the vision.
CW: child death, homophobia, violence, police brutality (past), gun violence (past), bullying (mention), antisemitism (mention)

Out of the Storm by Joy McCullough (King Lear)
Eh the ending was a little cheesy but I really appreciated the vision. I liked the play style format.
CW: hospitalization, parental death, abusive parent, incest (implied), misogyny, child death

Elsinore by Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet)
The vision of Hamlet meets Dracula is so wonderfully campy and I'm so here for it. The atmosphere and the vibes were well done but too much of the action was left off screen and not in an interesting-use-of-negative-space way like R&J. (Also how are you gonna gender bend Hamlet and not make it sapphic?????) I left starving.
CW: death of father, grief, blood

We Fail by Samantha Mabry (Macbeth)
This weirdly felt like the meeting point of multiple Macbeth productions and adaptations I've seen over the years (complimentary).
CW: death, car accident, miscarriage (past), blood, hospitalization (past), alcohol, emesis, animal death (offpage)

Lost Girl by Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter's Tale)
This was such a beautiful and touching reimagining, wonderfully embodying the complexities of the original story. I loved the open ending, I loved the fairy tale elements, I loved the characterization. Just well done.
CW: child death (past)