Tales from Shakespeare

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

Overview

Tales from Shakespeare, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357911443
Publisher:	Alpha Edition
Publication date:	09/20/2023
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb.

Marina Warner is a prize-winning writer of fiction, criticism, and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of female myths and symbols. Her recent books include: The Leto Bundle (2001), Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture (2003), and Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (2004).

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	The Tempest	1
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	16
	The Winter's Tale	31
	Much Ado About Nothing	45
	As You Like It	61
	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	82
	The Merchant of Venice	99
	Cymbeline	116
	King Lear	133
	Macbeth	152
	All's Well That Ends Well	166
	The Taming of the Shrew	182
	The Comedy of Errors	196
	Measure for Measure	214
	Twelfth Night; or, What You Will	233
	Timon of Athens	250
	Romeo and Juliet	267
	Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	289
	Othello	309
	Pericles, Prince of Tyre	326

Editorial Reviews

Conquering the distaste for knowledge and learning which so frequently opposes itself to the instruction of children; and we do not scruple to say that, unless perhaps we except Robinson Crusoe, these volumes claim the very first place, and stand unique, without rival or competitor.”

1807 Critical Review

The Lambs’ Tales is the granddaddy of all Cliff Notes and may be the only one that qualifies in its own right as a work of literature. These narrative retellings of 18 of Shakespeare’s plays don’t attempt to reproduce the plays’ structure or dramatic qualities, but recast the stories into narrative form with freedom and dexterity.”

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