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Tales From Shakspeare: Designed For The Use Of Young Persons

Tales From Shakspeare: Designed For The Use Of Young Persons

Lamb, Charles

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354505856
ISBN13: 9789354505850
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into Shakespeare without the struggle. Big passions, sharper plots, and no stage directions. Shakespeare made clear for everyone. Tales From Shakspeare gathers the Bard's greatest dramas as a children's story anthology, reshaped into lucid prose summaries of plays. Charles Lamb turns Shakespeare comedies and tragedies into swift, story-led shakespeare play retellings that keep the moral weight, wit, and wonder, while trimming away what can block first-time readers. The result is a shakespeare stories collection that works as a young readers introduction, a dependable school reading edition, and an inviting bridge to classic drama for beginners. You still feel the pulse of elizabethan england drama, but in a form that can be read aloud, shared, and returned to. First published in the early nineteenth century, this nineteenth century british classic helped define classic literature adaptations for a new audience and remains a landmark in how william shakespeare for kids has been introduced across generations. It is as appealing to casual readers seeking story-forward classics as it is to collectors who value the long afterlife of Shakespeare in English letters. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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