Tales From Shakespeare By Charles

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), a poet and playwright, s acknowledged as the greatest writer and the world\'s pre-eminent dramatist. These twenty tales from Shakespeare\'s plays are designed to make Shakespeare familiar to the young. The tales are told with delightful simplicity, and a faithfulness to their originals, which are not lessened by the gentle salutary emphasis on the moral of the central situation. Charles and Mary Lamb interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own to bring 20 of his best plays to the young reader. Mary wrote the fourteen comedies and Charles, the six tragedies.