Tales from Shakespeare

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Puffin, 1987 - Drama - 320 pages
Celebrated prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's originals. Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, "Tales from Shakespeare" provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, and rhythm. It is a captivating work of Romantic storytelling as well as the original literary homage to the Bard.

Contents

Preface
7
A Midsummer Nights Dream
24
The Winters Tale
38
Much Ado About Nothing
51
As You Like It
66
The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
84
The Merchant Of Venice
99
Cymbeline
114
Alls Well That Ends Well
159
The Taming Of The Shrew
173
Measure For Measure
201
Twelfth Night or What You Will
218
Timon Of Athens
233
Romeo And Juliet
248
Hamlet Prince Of Denmark
268
Othello
286

King Lear
129
Macbeth
146
Pericles Prince Of Tyre
302
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