Penguin Classics Tales from Shakespeare, (Paperback)

from lorileeke

This is an audio version of Tales From Shakespeare, the IDEAL primer for anyone interested in becoming familiar with the works of the great bard. The stories' warmth and clarity make them pleasurable reading even to confirmed Shakespeareans. The brother/sister team of Charles and Mary Lamb retold...

from emilyl31395

I think this book is great to approach before reading the original. I had read Romeo and Juliet before I read this book and had some confusion in some parts. However, if I had read this book before reading the original, I would have had less trouble at reading Romeo and Julliet. Also, all the sto...

from hilleviw

Date unknown, but must be prior to 1970 because the marked price is five shillings. Contains Charles and Mary Lamb's retellings of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "The Merchant of Venice", "Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear", and "Othello." These sweet and unpretentious re-tellings of ...

from countrylife

From the foreword: "In the twenty tales told in this book, the Lambs succeeded in paraphrasing the language of truly adult literature in children's terms." And they succeeded beautifully. Each tale is about twenty pages long. I confess that I've never actually read Shakespeare, and frankly found ...

from booktsunami

Shakespeare is pretty hard to follow when read just as text. His plots are complex and characters numerous. And Charles Lamb set out to turn them into straightforward stories. He seems to have achieved this aim because his book is still being produced and read 200 years later. It suffers a little...