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 include:
- 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
