“Tales from Shakespeare” Short summary of the book:
Tales from Shakespeare is an English children’s book written by brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807.
The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare’s plays familiar to the young. Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; they wrote the preface between them.
“Tales from Shakespeare” Contains of the book:
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)
11. All’s Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb)
12. The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb)
13. The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb)
14. Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb)
15. Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb)
16. Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb)
17. Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb)
18. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb)
19. Othello (Charles Lamb)
20. Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb)
