Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespear presented prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays, in language intended for children. Godwin and Co., at the Juvenile Library, 1816. It is read by Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres two of Britain’s best-loved voice actors. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and Mary Lamb (1764-1847) Tales From Shakespear, Designed for the Use of Young Persons. This collection consists of versions of ten Shakespeare plays including Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet and Othello. All Shakespeares Tales: Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, and Tales from Shakespeare by Winston Stokes. This lively and accessible CD version is compelling listening for all the family, and will prove a great resource and inspiration to students, scholars and newcomers to the Bard alike - in short, everybody who enjoys a really good story beautifully told. Tales From Shakespear, Designed for the Use of Young Persons. Their success was immediate and their appeal quickly extended to an adult readership. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and Mary Lamb (1764-1847). 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…īrother and sister team Charles and Mary Lamb originally wrote these stories for children in 1807 based on Shakespeare’s most famous plays.
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