Tales from Shakespeare

Name: Tales from Shakespeare
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Lamb
ISBN: 9798228357778

Author: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Published: 12/17/2024

Categories: Fiction, Poetry

Synopsis

“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 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.” (Charles and Mary Lamb from The Preface - “Tales from Shakespeare,” 1807). This collection includes twenty of Shakespeare’s plays which are uniquely and faithfully re-told as prose stories. Over the years it has become invaluable as a resource for Students, Actors, and those who are simply interested in initially familiarizing themselves and understanding the plots of Shakespeare’s work.

About Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (1774–1834) was a nineteenth-century English poet and essayist. His first poems appeared in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's collection Poems on Various Subjects, and his early epigrams, plays, and essays were printed in such publications as the Albion, the Morning Chronicle, and the Morning Post. Lamb also collaborated with his sister, Mary, on many works, including Tales from Shakespeare, as well as with Charles Lloyd on Blank Verse.

About Mary Lamb

Mary Lamb (1764 –1847) was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb. She is best known today for her collaboration with Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. She and Charles presided over a literary circle in London that included the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others.

About Chris MacDonnell

Chris MacDonnell is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a classically trained actor and voice artist whose theater credits include London’s West End and the Royal National Theatre, British TV shows, BBC Radio drama, commercials, and films. He is also a published poet and has written comedy and drama for television shows.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ṣafā on June 07, 2017

Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare are a prose form of Shakespeare's plays for children by the writer siblings Charles and Mary Lamb. While certainly keeping the magic alive by use of Shakespeare's original words but also not letting go of convenience at any point, the language is very easy, but stil......more

Goodreads review by Malak on July 24, 2014

* This review is going to be slightly short. I got this book on my 20th birthday. A friend of mine knew how much I suffer reading Shakespeare and that I always read simple summaries before reading the original plays, so it was very thoughtful of her to bring a book that contains the most famous plays......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on April 07, 2019

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb is a 1001 Children's Book. I've had a copy of it for a long time, and I'd originally planned to read the chapter from this book at the same time I read the play. I did this for two chapters before I realized it might take me an eternity to get through......more

Goodreads review by Ian on August 31, 2022

The prize I was awarded for finishing top of First Form (year seven) at Williamstown High in 1965. It seems I peaked at age twelve: I've been in slow decline ever since. I did wonder what these Lamb people had to do with writing Shakespeare. The illustrations by the Czech artist Karel Svolinsky are......more