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Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

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Juvenile
Published 1975 Macmillan 17 views
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1441744444, 9781441744449
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Mary Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".

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There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his daughter Miranda, a very beautiful young lady...

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Contains 20 adaptations from Shakespeare; The Tempest (Mary Lamb) A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mary Lamb) The Winter's Tale (Mary Lamb) Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb) As You Like It (Mary Lamb) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb) The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb) Cymbeline (Mary Lamb) King Lear (Charles Lamb) Macbeth (Charles Lamb) All's Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb) The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb) The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb) Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb) Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb) Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb) Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb) Othello (Charles Lamb) Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb)

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