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"Tales from Shakespeare is the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays by brother and sister duo Charles and Mary Lamb. What is represented of Shakespeare's plays is a magnificent retelling of some of his most popular works, ideal for introducing young readers to the brilliance of the Bard." -- Amazon.com
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Portuguese
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Glória das letras inglesas, William Shakespeare foi o seu mais célebre dramaturgo e um dos grandes clássicos da literatura universal. Graças à riqueza da sua genialidade verbal, da magia incomparável da sua linguagem dramática e do fino espírito de humor com que adorna muitas peças, são incontáveis as representações que estas têm tido em todo o mundo. A presente adaptação dos irmãos Charles e Mary Lamb, pensada para os leitores mais...
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First published in 1807, "Tales from Shakespeare" is the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays by brother and sister duo Charles and Mary Lamb. All told twenty of Shakespeare's plays are represented in this work. On what basis the two made their selection of tales is unknown, the English Histories are left unattempted, as well as the Roman Plays. Of the comedies only "Love's Labour's Lost" is omitted. As Alfred Ainger comments in his introduction...
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Enthralling prose retellings for young readers of some of Shakespeare's most beloved works. This selection of works features The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and Othello.
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Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play and come away without fully understanding it? Or wished you had known the basis of the plot before seeing a play by Shakespeare? Are you studying Shakespeare? Would you like to increase your knowledge of the plays without reading the originals? Then these are probably the recordings for you...
Brother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb originally wrote these stories for children in 1807 based on Shakespeare's...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Originally written to be an "introduction to the study of Shakespeare," Shakespeare for Children is much more entertaining than that-some of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style. Charles and Mary Lamb introduce children to the magic of Shakespeare with these ten favorite tales. Although simplified, these stories don't underestimate young readers; they keep the complexity, twists of plot, and turns...
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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...
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The first of CSA Word's popular women's short story collections
An outstandingly good and very unusual collection - The Sunday Times
This selection of stories relates the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad but always enriching. With stories by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Gaskell - it includes Ladies in Lavender by William J. Locke, the inspiration for the film of the same name starring...