Tales from Shakespeare. by: Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb (Children's Classics) (Illustrated)
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781539910534
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Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb in 1807.The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young.[1] However, as noted in the authors' Preface, "[Shakespeare's] 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 interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided."Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; they wrote the preface between them.The book contains the following tales:1.The Tempest (Mary Lamb)2.A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mary Lamb)3.The Winter's Tale (Mary Lamb)4.Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb)5.As You Like It (Mary Lamb)6.Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb)7.The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb)8.Cymbeline (Mary Lamb)9.King Lear (Charles Lamb)10.Macbeth (Charles Lamb)11.All's Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb)12.The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb)13.The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb)14.Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb)15.Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb)16.Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb)17.Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb)18.Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb)19.Othello (Charles Lamb)20.Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb)
| ISBN-13 | 9781539910534 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1539910539 |
| Weight | 0.74 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.00 x 0.37 x 10.00 In |
| List Price | $9.50 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 162 pages |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Published On | 2016-11-04 |
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