To better celebrate Shakespeare month this April, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building will be hosting a series of events this week celebrating the famous playwright. For those of you who can't attend but still want to get your Shakespeare on, here's a list of titles that are either modern re-tellings of Shakespeare's classics or novels featuring and/or inspired by characters he created.

• The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper
• Much Ado About Murder by Simon Hawke
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
• My Name is Will by Jess Winfield
• Serenissma by Erica Jong
• Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
• The Madness of Love by Katherine Davies
• Prospero’s Daughter by Elisabeth Nunez
• Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King
• Fool by Christopher Moore
• The Gentleman Poet by Kathryn Johnson
• Juliet by Anne Fortier
• A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• Prospero Lost by L. Jagi Lamplighter
• Shakespeare Undead by Lori Handeland
• The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye
• Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
• The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer
• Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet by Myrlin Hermes
• A Girl, a Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills by Lizabeth Zindel