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by Mary Lamb,Charles Lamb

Author:

Mary Lamb,Charles Lamb

ISBN13:

978-0517205747

ISBN:

0517205742

Language:

English

Publisher:

Children's Classics; New Ed edition (August 17, 1999)

Category:

Fiction

Subcategory:

Dramas & Plays

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a bonus here with the puffin classics is the addition of backstory included at the end of the book. here you can learn more about the author, the characters, and so much more.

a bonus here with the puffin classics is the addition of backstory included at the end of the book.

Charles and Mary Lamb vividly bring to life the power of Hamlet and Othello. 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.

Tales from Shakespeare (Wordsworth Children's Classics). a bonus here with the puffin classics is the addition of backstory included at the end of the book. here you can learn more about the author, the characters, and so much more

Tales from Shakespeare (Wordsworth Children's Classics). 18 people found this helpful.

Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807. The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young. Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; they wrote the preface between them.

Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare are a prose form of Shakespeare's plays for children by the writer siblings Charles and Mary Lamb.

Librivox recording of Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. Read by Karen Savage. The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least.

Title: Tales from Shakespeare. Author: Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

Title: Tales from Shakespeare. Author: Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb. Illustrator: Arthur Rackham. Release Date: February 24, 2007. Tales from shakespeare.

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. 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.

Dream Children a revery essay by Charles Lamb in Hindi summary Explanation and full analysis .

Charles Lamb, a distinguished English essayist, collaborated with his sister . Ten Tales from Shakespeare Dover Children's Evergreen Classics. Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb. Издание: исправленное.

Charles Lamb, a distinguished English essayist, collaborated with his sister, Mary, to create enthralling prose retellings for young readers of some of Shakespeare's most beloved works. Mary Lamb (1764-1847) collaborated with her brother Charles on several books for children, including their famous children's collection "Tales from Shakespeare", published in 1807.

In the twenty tales told in this book, Charles & Mary Lamb succeeded in paraphrasing the language of truly adult literature in children’s terms. Let us not underestimate young readers: they love a complex story with many and varied characters, twists of plot, and turns of fate as much as anyone — but they draw the line at reading in unfamiliar language. The Lambs provide a real feast of plain fare, and flavor it with as many tasty tidbits of Shakespearean language as they felt the young reader could easily digest. This deluxe Children’s Classic edition is produced with high-quality, leatherlike binding with gold stamping, full-color covers, colored endpapers with a book nameplate. Some of the other titles in this series include: Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, King Arthur and His Knights, Little Women, and Treasure Island.

greed style

I was eager to read Lamb's Shakespeare, but this edition is a terrible disappointment. The font size is tiny and all the illustrations are in black and white and most are reduced to the point of uselessness. The cover is pretty, but it is otherwise a badly designed reprint.

Go to the Gutenberg Project, a free online database of works in the public domain. They offer the book in Epub, Kindle, html, etc. both with a without illustrations. The font is legible and can be enlarged and you will not have to pay a cent to read it.

Tisicai

Beware: The hardcover version illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet is NOT THE FULL COLLECTION of the Lamb adaptations of Shakespeare. It only includes 6 of the adaptations: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and King Lear. This is a big disappointment, since the item description says nothing about this being an incomplete collection. In fact, it appears misleading, saying "From Much Ado About Nothing to Macbeth..." in the description while not mentioning that their are only 4 other plays included! The slipcover and layout are well-done, but the woeful incompleteness outweighs the aesthetics.

Silly Dog

I accidentally discovered a hardbound version of this work in a used bookstore perhaps twenty years ago, and recently gifted it to my oldest granddaughter, who has a love for Shakespeare's world. I then discovered the identical work -- for free! -- on Kindle. The plays are presented in a prose, short story format, written for young people. They are delightfully detailed and the language and style of writing, although somewhat dated, is smooth and fun reading. This is a definite recommendation for anyone wanting to discover The Bard's works without having to wade through the plays. For anyone needing a quick knowledge of a particular play, or just wanting to immerse themselves in the genius of Shakespeare's work, this is the book to get. And it's free!

Priotian

first, allow me to say that i am quite enjoying these puffin classics editions of some of my favorite books!

here we have a great tool for those being introduced to shakespeare and his vast body of work. to the new shakespeare reader, it can be difficult (through language and writing style) to understand the stories of each play, however this book breaks them down into understandable stories, as well as includes a comprehensive glossary of the main characters in each of the plays covered.

this book covers the following plays:

the tempest
a midsummer night's dream
the winter's tale
much ado about nothing
as you like it
the two gentlemen of verona
the merchant of venice
cymbeline
king lear
macbeth
all's well that ends well
the taming of the shrew
the comedy of errors
measure for measure
twelfth night; or, what you will
timon of athens
romeo and juliet
hamlet, prince of denmark
othello
pericles, prince of tyre

when i was in high school, each fall, the drama club would go to ashland, oregon, home of the largest stateside shakespeare festival (and a modified recreation of the old globe theatre) to see several plays. how i wish i would have had this book back then for reference!

a bonus here with the puffin classics is the addition of backstory included at the end of the book. here you can learn more about the author, the characters, and so much more. what a delightful thing to include!

i have purchased most of these puffin classics editions, and will certainly look for future additions to add to my collection.

Wymefw

This is an essential to children and grown ups alike as a way to comprehend the stories of Shakespeare, which as prose are as brilliant as the plays. I received this book (when it was actually a paper book!) when I was a child, and it aided me in understanding of all the great plays since the Lambs have converted the plays into short stories. Of course the well crafted dialogue and incredible insights and observations made famous in the plays can only be appreciated in the plays, but at least this book lays the ground work. But this is a highly valuable source.

Cointrius

In his time, Shakespeare was the playwright to Everyman. Think Neil Simon.

Just as with theater -goers today, it was usual for the audience to know ahead of the performance what they expected to witness. Shakespeare's genius was in many things, but as with most great artists, he stole from the best!! NOT PLAGIARIZING AS WE MEAN IT TODAY.. He retold ancient myths and sometimes more recent legends. He combined plot and sub-plot as any great chef combines ingredients. AND, he did it with wonderful language that was witty and fresh and provoking! Shakespeare broke the then-current rules of language: he verbed nouns!!! (Remember the language arts teacher who instructed that "contact" is not to be used as "John contacted his boss."? Shakespeare increased English enormously: some say 50% of words in ordinary use today are due to him!

SO, if you read Lamb, you will be able to pick up a play, or enter a theater with a background similar to the original audience.

p.s. Reading the great Greek and Roman myths will help you see many inside jokes and references; Bullfinch is still my favorite source - one rarely finds this level of language on WWW.

Shalinrad

This is helpful if one wants to introduce kids or if you want to read the "Cliff-notes" before you go see a Shakespeare play. Then you can sound intelligent ;)
That said, however, the formatting is weird like someone just cut a pasted without checking afterwards to make sure everything made sense. There are places where sentences just end and beginnings of paragraphs that don't seem to go with what was just said.

I have to confess to buying this book because I saw it referred to in a Jane Austen fan fiction book. I was curious. It is quite a cute little book and bravo to the Lambs for wanting to make Shakespeare accessible to children. I know heaps of people who look at me askew because they don't "get" Shakespeare . . . this book would certainly help any adult who has a problem with the vernacular of the age.

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