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Tales from Shakespeare


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Published: 2010

Great for age 9-12 years

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Discover Shakespeare's best-loved plays with this fantastic, unabridged and downloadable audiobook edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, read by Alan Cumming, Juliet Stevenson, Nigel Davenport and Andrew Sachs. A perfect introduction for all ages to the breadth and beauty of Shakespeare's work. Tales from Shakespeare has become a classic work in its own right. The tales bring vividly to life the power of Hamlet and Macbeth, the fun of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the drama of The Tempest. Blending detailed narrative with original dialogue and poetic language, they fully convey the wit, wisdom and imagination of Shakespeare's magnificent plays.Includes King Lear, The Tempest, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Measure for Measure.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

This book was published in 2010 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .

Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare. Brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb wrote these adaptive tales from Shakespeare in 1807; whose popularity and accessibility has stood the test of time.