What was special about Tales from Shakespeare?

Tales from Shakespeare is a collection of 20 stories. It was adapted for young readers from the original plays by William Shakespeare. The book was written with an intention to modernise the archaic English and complicated story line of Shakespeare to a simple level that children could read and comprehend.

Who co authored Tales from Shakespeare with Charles Lamb?

sister Mary Lamb
It retells, in language accessible to children, the stories of twenty of Shakespeare’s plays. Tales from Shakespeare is an English children’s book written by Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb in 1807. The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare’s plays familiar to the young.

What was Charles Lamb known for?

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How Lamb viewed the tragedies of Shakespeare summary?

In 1811, Charles Lamb published his subtle and pugnacious essay “On the Tragedies of Shakspeare, considered with reference to their fitness for stage representation.” In it he argued not that Shakespeare’s tragedies should never be acted, but that they are made “another thing” by being acted.

Why did Charles and Mary Lamb write Tales from Shakespeare?

Charles and Mary Lamb appeared to have anticipated the enormous growth in the popularity of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when the book was one of the best-selling titles.

What are the names of the Lambs in Shakespeare?

1 The Tempest (Mary Lamb) 2 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mary Lamb) 3 The Winter’s Tale (Mary Lamb) 4 Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb) 5 As You Like It (Mary Lamb) 6 Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb) 7 The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb) 8 Cymbeline (Mary Lamb) 9 King Lear (Charles Lamb) 10 Macbeth (Charles Lamb)

Who are Charles and Mary Lamb brothers and sisters?

Brother-and-sister writing team Charles and Mary Lamb interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own (some 200 years later in 1807) to bring 20 of his best plays to the young reader. They are more fully enlivened with the early twentieth-century color illustrations of Gertrude Hammond.

Who was Mary Ann Lamb and what did she do?

Mary Ann Lamb (3 December 1764 – 20 May 1847) was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare.