Tales from Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare

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Author: Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb/
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 268
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171673465

Description

These twenty tales from Shakespeare's plays are designed to make Shakespeare familiar to the young. The tales are told with delightful simplicity, and a faithfulness to their originals.

These twenty tales from Shakespeare’s plays are designed to make Shakespeare familiar to the young. The tales are told with delightful simplicity, and a faithfulness to their originals, which are not lessened by the gentle salutary emphasis on the moral of the central situation.

Shakespeare's own language is skillfully interwoven into the thread of the narrative wherever possible. Mary wrote the fourteen comedies and Charles, the six tragedies.

Contents

1. The Tempest

2. A Midsummer Nights Dream

3. The Winter’s Tale

4. Much Ado about Nothing

5. As You Like It

6. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

7. The Merchant of Venice

8. Cymbeline

9. King Lear

10. Macbeth

11. All’s Well that Ends Well

12. The Taming of the Shrew

13. The Comedy of Errors

14. Measure for Measure

15. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

16. Timon of Athens

17. Romeo and Juliet

18. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

19. Othello

20. Pericles, Prince of Tyre