The plays transformed into stories by Lamb siblings are, ‘The Tempest,’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ ‘As You Like It,’ ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona,’ ‘The Merchant of Venice,’ ‘Cymbeline,’ ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ ‘All’s Well That Ends Well,’ ‘Taming of the Shrew,’ ‘The Comedy of Errors,’ ‘Measure for Measure,’ ‘Twelfth Night or, What You Will,’ ‘Timon of Athens,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Hamlet,’ ‘Prince of Denmark,’ ‘Othello,’ and ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre.’Īlthough I enjoyed reading all the stories except one, my favourite stories are ‘Tempest,’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Timon of Athens,’ and ‘Merchant of Venice.’ I loved ‘Tempest’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ because it has a fairytale quality with fairies and other elements of fantasy which made them my favourite reads and I am tempted to read them in their original forms as well. However, the comedies were written so beautifully that it was astonishing that a person suffering from mental illness could write so beautifully. When I dug a little deeper to know more about Lamb siblings I learned that Mary Lamb suffered from some mental illness and in a fit once mortally wounded her mother as a result of which she was confined to mental facilities for most of her remaining life.
Therefore, Charles Lamb retold the tragedies and Mary Lamb retold the comedies in the story form.
Charles Lamb was a celebrated prose writer of the Seventeenth Century and ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ is a work that he wrote in collaboration with his elder sister Mary Lamb who was also a writer and poet, to acquaint the young readers with Shakespearean plays. The book ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ is a prose retelling of William Shakespeare’s plays, by Charles and Mary Lamb. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Stories, plots, etc.Warning: The review may contain some spoilers for those who haven’t read William Shakespeare’s plays. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Adaptations PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
The tempest - A midsummer night's dream - The winter's tale - Much ado about nothing - As you like it - The two gentlemen of Verona - The merchant of Venice - Cymbeline - King Lear - Macbeth - All's well that ends well - The taming of the shrew - The comedy of errors - Measure for measure - Twelfth night or, what you will - Timon of Athens - Romeo and Juliet - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - Othello - Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
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