Tales from Shakespeare

Charles and Mary Lamb turned Shakespeare's plays into prose stories so that younger readers could meet the plots and characters before facing the verse. Mary Lamb handled the comedies and Charles took the tragedies, and both kept Shakespeare's own phrasing wherever a young reader could follow it. Each retelling runs a few pages and covers the action clearly enough to serve as preparation for the play itself or as a refresher before a performance. For the shelf and the classroom: • Prose retellings of comedies and tragedies including Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest • Language simplified without discarding Shakespeare's own wording • Self-contained chapters, one play to each • Helpful groundwork before studying the original texts Well suited to school students, teachers and readers approaching Shakespeare for the first time, available at Boipoka.