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Tales from Shakespeare "Lamb, Charles"

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ; Wordsworth Children's ClassicsPublication details: United Kingdom Wordsworth Editions Ltd 05/08/1994Edition: New editionDescription: 288 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781853261404
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • JF CHA
Summary: "Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807. This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham."
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807.

This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham.

"Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807. This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham."

Children / Juvenile; General (US: Trade)

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. vii)
  • The Tempest (p. 1)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (p. 17)
  • The Winter's Tale (p. 33)
  • Much Ado About Nothing (p. 49)
  • As You Like It (p. 65)
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona (p. 87)
  • The Merchant of Venice (p. 105)
  • Cymbeline (p. 123)
  • King Lear (p. 141)
  • Macbeth (p. 161)
  • All's Well That Ends Well (p. 177)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (p. 194)
  • The Comedy of Errors (p. 208)
  • Measure of Measure (p. 228)
  • Twelfth Night, Or What You Will (p. 248)
  • Timon of Athens (p. 266)
  • Romeo and Juliet (p. 284)
  • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (p. 308)
  • Othello (p. 329)
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre (p. 347)

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