Charles and Mary Lamb - Tales from Shakespeare

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Everyman Classics.

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

For over a hundred and fifty years ‘Lambs’ Tales’ have brought pleasure to adult readers as well as to younger ones. Not just a delightful introduction to  Shakespeare’s plays themselves, the Tales also stand as literature in their own right, for the literary partnership [seated at one table, as Mary said, like ‘an old literary Darby and Joan’] had a wonderful facility for extracting the essentials of character and action, allied to skillful unfolding of the plot.

The world of the high tragedies - the story of Timon of Athens, the storm scene in King Lear, the plotting of Iago, the chronicle of Pericles - as well as that of the best-loved comedies come vividly to life in these retellings. Even confirmed Shakespeareans will enjoy them for their warmth of heart, and for lovers of Charles Lamb they display yet another facet of that quiet, compelling genius who became one of the greatest writers of occasional prose.