No Fear Shakespeare is a book series and set of Shakespeare study guides from SparkNotes.

No Fear Shakespeare’s book series offers modern English translations of most of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.

As with the NoSweatShakespeare ebooks, No Fear Shakespeare modernized versions of Shakespeare make reading the plays much easier. Whilst any modernization of Shakespeare’s works is obviously likely to reduce the experience and dramatic impact that reading a Shakespeare’s play gives, having the original text and translation text side-by-side makes a great tool to help young and first-time Shakespeare readers understand the works.

Their online study guides offer loads of free play-specific information including:

For some of Shakespeare’s more popular plays No Fear Shakespeare also offer teaching guides designed to help classic literature engaging and relevant to today’s students.  These teaching guides are in old school print format only, and available to buy from Barnes & Noble.

No Fear Shakespeare website, from Spark Notes