Books with title Shakespeare Tales: Macbeth

THE SIGNET CLASSIC SHAKESPEARE SERIESThe Work of the World’s Greatest DramatistA great way to enjoy twenty of Shakespeare’s timeless plays, this volume is a retelling of the stories in prose by the famous nineteenth-century brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb. Keeping Shakespeare’s own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily accessible, this entertaining and readable collection has enthralled both children and adults ever since it first appeared in 1807. Here Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies and comedies come to life. Defined by moving drama, vivid action, great wit, or fantastic imagination, each play comes alive with charm and clarity for readers of any age—as a helpful preface to the original Elizabethan version or even as enriching, unforgettable stories in themselves.With an Introduction by Susan J. Wolfson and an Afterword by Sylvan Barnet, general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series.

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In this charming collectible, a selection of Charles and Mary Lamb’s classic prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays are beautifully illustrated by acclaimed artist Joëlle Jolivet. The Lambs’ Shakespeare, familiar to readers since the 1800s, gets a modern twist from Jolivet’s vibrant and colorful art; Jolivet re-imagines the princes, royalty, fools, and villains from Shakespeare’s world as colorful, striking characters. From Much Ado About Nothing to Macbeth, each story features pages of illustrations that are both irreverent and wholly appropriate. Enclosed in a die-cut slipcase, the book is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans at any age.

Legendary actress and Shakespearean expert Tina Packer takes all the fear out of understanding Shakespeare by adapting ten of The Bard’s most famous plays into easily understood short stories, retold in modern language. Her introduction provides the listener with easy-to-digest information about Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s life and work.“Packer captures the essence of the playwright’s words and ideas, placing them in concise and clearly told stories…A treasure trove of well-told tales.” School Library Journal.A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet.

This work gives a perfect introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays. Charles and Mary Lamb bring vividly alive all the power of "Hamlet" and "Othello", the fun of "As You Like It", and the drama of "Pericles". Conveying all of Shakespeare's wit, wisdom and humanity, and never losing the feel of his beautiful language, these tales are classic literature in their own right.

"All hail, MacBeth! that shall be king hereafter!" With these dramatic words the weird sisters fire Macbeth with an all-consuming desire to be King of Scotland. And neither he nor his wife, Lady Macbeth, will stop at anything to gain the throne. A story of ambition, murder, and madness, Macbeth contains some of the most memorable characters in English literature. This short and accessible retelling captures the style of Shakespeare's original language.

★ Tales from Shakespeare ★The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent are has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.In those tales which have been taken from the Tragedies, the young readers will perceive, when they come to see the source from which these stories are derived, that Shakespeare's own words, with little alteration, recur very frequently in the narrative as well as in the dialogue; but in those made from the Comedies the writers found themselves scarcely ever able to turn his words into the narrative form: therefore it is feared that, in them, dialogue has been made use of too frequently for young people not accustomed to the dramatic form of writing. But this fault, if it be a fault, has been caused by an earnest wish to give as much of Shakespeare's own words as possible: and if the 'He said,' and 'She said,' the question and the reply, should sometimes seem tedious to their young ears, they must pardon it, because it was the only way in which could be given to them a few hints and little foretastes of the great pleasure which awaits them in their elder years, when they come to the rich treasures from which these small and valueless coins are extracted; pretending to no other merit than as faint and imperfect stamps of Shakespeare's matchless image. Faint and imperfect images they must be called, because the beauty of his language is too frequently destroyed by the necessity of changing many of his excellent words into words far less expressive of his true sense, to make it read something like prose; and even in some few places, where his blank verse is given unaltered, as hoping from its simple plainness to cheat the young reader into the belief that they are reading prose, yet still his language being transplanted from its own natural soil and wild poetic garden, it must want much of its native beauty. ...The book contains the following tales:The Tempest (Mary Lamb)A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mary Lamb)The Winter's Tale (Mary Lamb)Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb)As You Like It (Mary Lamb)Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb)The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb)Cymbeline (Mary Lamb)King Lear (Charles Lamb)Macbeth (Charles Lamb)All's Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb)The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb)The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb)Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb)Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb)Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb)Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb)Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb)Othello (Charles Lamb)Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb)

* Illustrated with Arthur Rackham's classic drawingsTales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by Charles Lamb with his sister Mary Lamb.The book reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare to a simple level that children (and many adults!) could easily read and comprehend.Twenty classic tales are included:THE TEMPESTA MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAMTHE WINTER'S TALEMUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHINGAS YOU LIKE ITTHE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONATHE MERCHANT OF VENICECYMBELINEKING LEARMACBETHALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELLTHE TAMING OF THE SHREWTHE COMEDY OF ERRORSMEASURE FOR MEASURETWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILLTIMON OF ATHENSROMEO AND JULIETHAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARKOTHELLOPERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE

Tales from Shakespeare' was written by Charles and Mary Lamb in the early nineteenth century to introduce children to the greatest plays of William Shakespeare. They adapted twenty of Shakespeare's plays in simple language so that it makes easy reading for the young readers. Conveying all Shakespeare's wit, wisdom and humanity, and never losing the feel of his beautiful language, these tales are classic literature in their own right.