Brian FordeTaking part in a mock battle are, from left: Fisher Leugs, 14, of Grand Rapids; Nick Marrow, 10, of Grand Rapids; and Maddie Hale, 15, of Hopkins.

William Shakespeare sits frowning at the screen of his home computer. He is having a hard time with the script revisions on “Hamlet II: Return to Elsinore.” Shakespeare had not wanted to do ...