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Book Reviews of Tales from Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare
Author: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
ISBN-13: 9780140366778
ISBN-10: 0140366776
Publication Date: 3/1/1995
Pages: 346
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
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3 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Puffin
Book Type: Paperback
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katink avatar reviewed Tales from Shakespeare on + 32 more book reviews
The author's succeed in telling Shaklespeare's stories in language that everyone can understand. There are 20 tales in this book.

The Tempest
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Winter's Tale
Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It
The Two Gentleman of Verona
The Merchant of Venice
Cymbeline
King Lear
Macbeth
All's Well That Ends Well
The Taming of the Shrew
The Comedy of Errors
Measure for Measure
Twelfth Night, Or What You Will
Timon of Athens
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Otherllo
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
buzzby avatar reviewed Tales from Shakespeare on + 6062 more book reviews
Approximately 15 page summations of The Tempest, A Midsummernight's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, 2 Gentlemen from Verona, Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, King Lear, MacBeth, Alls Well that Ends Well, Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, 12th Night, Timon of Athens, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Pericles.
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Charles and Mary Lamb have re=told twenty of the best-known Shakespearian comedies and tragedies. this introduction to the plays will give young readers a foretaste of the deeper enjoyment that they will experience when they are older and can read the dramas as they were written Book Club Edition w/dustjacket Incl. The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream, the Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, As you Like It, the Two Gentlement of Verona, The Merchant of Venice and 13 more.