I love Shakespeare and have had the opportunity to see many of his plays at the Stratford Festival. It’s a good sampling of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies, but I can’t help wondering why they omitted his histories? What about Julius Caesar or Richard III? Goodness gracious if children can deal with Hamlet and Macbeth, they can deal with the former and even absorb some—well according to Shakespeare anyway—history as well. Modern readers may find the Lambs' retellings somewhat old-fashioned and didactic. Tales from Shakespeare, however, remains an excellent introduction to Shakespeare.

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That's a pretty good sample of this text. It's considered a children's book, remember, and I found the sentences to be lengthy and the vocabulary a bit daunting for modern children. urn:oclc:record:1085609965 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier talesfromshakesplamb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1gj0kh6k Lccn 18022531 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Openlibrary_edition So, reading The Tempest I nod off and I see the demons somewhat like in the book in my sleep which conveniently make me wake up in fright. That was the only hitch in my reading this book. Richmond, Velma Bourgeois. Shakespeare as Children's Literature: Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures. p.17.

Shakespeare seems quite typical of his time but maybe he was radical in his time. There's some deus ex machina going on there too, it's like people have no natures, they just change according to the circumstances. It's such a powerful rendition of Shakespeare's plays in a very accessible format, interesting and easy to read for adults and children alike. But as much as I have truly enjoyed Tales From Shakespeare and do consider it a wonderful prose adaptation of and introduction to William Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies (with most of the comedies being rendered by Mary Lamb and the tragedies by her brother Charles Lamb), personally, I am also rather furious and flabbergasted that the Lambs have included neither ANY of the British history plays nor the so-called Roman dramas. And since sadly and unfortunately, this shortcoming of course means that some of my very favourite Shakespeare plays, like Henry IV (parts one and two), Henry V, Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra are therefore really and truly missing in action, I absolutely cannot and will not completely consider Tales From Shakespeare as a personal favourite and am indeed annoyed enough with regard to the British history and the Roman plays having been left out of Tales From Shakespeare that I will only be able to consider a three star ranking, a high three star rating no doubt and I do still highly recommend Tales From Shakespeare but the gaps, that certain types of Shakespeare plays are seemingly simply en masse being ignored by Charles and Mary Lamb, this does indeed rather majorly bother me. Macbeth is one of the greatest of the tragedies, swift as night and dark as spilt blood, with death and witchcraft bound together in wonderful poetry to tell the story of a man and woman who destroyed themselves." (Marchette Chute) Ami viszont kifejezetten pozitív élmény volt, az az Ahogy tetszik. Egyszerűen azért, mert amikor azt olvastam, akkor még a drámaformátum olvasása élénken élt bennem, és így tudatosan figyeltem arra, hogy mit ír le másképp egy próza, hogyan fűzi össze a jeleneteket, amiket a dráma különösebb nehézség nélkül csak egymás mögé pakol. Több helyen vélt vagy valós magyarázat is megjelenik történésekre, gondolom részben a potenciális gyerekolvasókra való tekintettel, részben a szöveg gördülékenysége miatt. Illetve szintén a gyerekek miatt valószínűleg a bolond és az álruhás-Rosalindba szerelmes lány (és az őt szerető ifjú) is kimaradtak a történetből. Őszintén szólva én ezt irodalomórán egy kihagyhatatlan lehetőségnek tartanám, hogy bármely kötelező Shakespeare-drámához el kelljen olvasni a mesét is, így a történeten kívül a két műnem és műnem-eszköztár közötti különbséget is lehetne elemezni.

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Several users, including some on the Advisory, have found that Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare is actually easier to follow in many instances than Nesbit's Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children, even though Lamb's is a bit more advanced. Nesbit's is very good, no question - and you will not err in choosing to continue using it. But we did side-by-side comparisons and found that Nesbit's often simplifies a story to the point that it is actually harder to follow - you miss some plot twists and turns that help it all make sense. Granted, the Lambs wrote it during a time when women didn't get university educations, there were still smart people out there who could understand the Bard without the contents being dumbed down. Mind you, the Lambs haven't included all of the plays in this work – notable absences include the Roman plays (which is a shame because Julius Caesar happens to be one of my favourites) and the History plays. The suggestion is, at least in the introduction to the edition that I read, is that the Lambs were more interested in the plays that operated within the domestic sphere as opposed to those that operated in the political sphere. While that may seem a little odd when we note that plays such as the Scottish Play and King Lear are included (as these two plays very much operate within the political sphere) I can sort of see where the Lambs are coming from – the book is primarily targeted at children, and at the age at which they would have been reading this their experience of the world outside of the home would have been quite limited. Tales from Shakespeare is referenced in the 2018 film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. See also [ edit ]There is a reason Shakespeare's works have survived to this day. It's timeless, classic and most all unique. About Lamb's Tales, the writing is atypical, top-notch, I loved it! This is a great way to dabble into Shakespeare, it's like dipping a toe, if you want to read Shakespeare or even if you don't plan to read the original works, if you're just curious.