Tales From Shakespeare, Tina Packer
Tales From Shakespeare, Tina Packer
List: $19.95 | Sale: $13.97
Club: $9.97

Tales From Shakespeare

Author: Tina Packer

Narrator: Tina Packer

Unabridged: 5 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/14/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

Legendary actress and Shakespearean expert, Tina Packer takes all the fear out of understanding Shakespeare by adapting ten of The Bard’s most famous plays into easily understood short stories, retold in modern language. Her introduction provides the listener with easy-to-digest information about Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s life and work.
“Packer captures the essence of the playwright’s words and ideas, placing them in concise and clearly told stories…A treasure trove of well-told tales.” —School Library Journal
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet.
“We’re passionate about bringing the classics to today’s listeners in fun, relevant and easy-to-listen-to audiobooks,” says producer Alison Larkin. “As soon as I learned that Tina has turned ten of Shakespeare’s most famous plays into short stories I knew they would make for an entertaining and important audiobook. I asked Tina to narrate them herself. Fortunately she said YES!”

About Tina Packer

Tina Packer is the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has directed most of Shakespeare’s plays, acted in seven, and taught the entire canon at multiple colleges and universities, among them Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. Packer was an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, and worked at the Royal Court and Aldwych theatres in London, Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other regional theatres, as well as for BBC and ITV television. The performance piece Women of Will has traveled across America as well as internationally. She lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.


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