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Book Tales from Shakespeare in Verse   With Illustrations

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare in Verse With Illustrations written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales from Shakespeare in Verse   With Coloured Illustrations

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare in Verse With Coloured Illustrations written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated Book of Shakespeare s Verse

Download or read book The Illustrated Book of Shakespeare s Verse written by L.K. Bulbeck and published by Flame Tree Illustrated. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest English-language playwright of all time. He was a natural poet, writing some long narrative poems, many sonnets and much of his plays in rhyming or blank verse. His sonnets have been praised as a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual passion, procreation, death, and time. This beautifully bound and illustrated book contains a carefully chosen selection of the bard's verse, from Sonnet 18's 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?' and Sonnet 116's 'Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds', to Hamlet's speech 'To be, or not to be'. It would make a very special gift to any fan of Shakespeare.

Book Shakespeare in Tale and Verse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lois Grosvenor Hufford
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2015-06-25
  • ISBN : 9781330439401
  • Pages : 461 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare in Tale and Verse written by Lois Grosvenor Hufford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare in Tale and Verse In retelling these tales from Shakespeare, the author's purpose is to introduce Shakespeare to the young, and to such of their elders as find the intricacies of the plots of the dramas somewhat difficult to untangle. For, although in naming the best books of the world, Shakespeare is usually mentioned after the Bible, comparatively few of the great reading public are familiarly acquainted with Shakespeare's plays. The stories that constitute the main plots are given, and these are interspersed with the dramatic dialogue in such a manner as to make tale and verse interpret each other. The author has endeavored to tell the stories from Shakespeare's point of view; to interpret sympathetically and truthfully the motives of the dramas and of the characters; to omit unessential details; and to select for quoting passages that are notable for strength and beauty, and those that have especial significance in revealing character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Tales from Shakespeare  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare Illustrated Edition written by Charles Lamb and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique and meticulously edited collection of the greatest Shakespeare tales: 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 Timon of Athens Romeo and Juliet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Othello Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Book Tales from Shakespeare   Complete with 20 Original Illustrations

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare Complete with 20 Original Illustrations written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb written by Mary Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 beaut

Book Tales from Shakespeare

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Fall River
  • Release : 2018-06-13
  • ISBN : 9781435166745
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Fall River. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We are such stuff asdreams are made on...' While the language of William Shakespeare's plays can makethem challenging for some readers, their plots are filled with fantastical,almost fairytale-like plot devices --misunderstandingsinvolving identical twins, magical forests, ghosts and witches, and foolishkings -- that make them irresistible to almostany reader. This gorgeous new edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's belovedbook collects their versions of twenty Shakespeare comedies and tragedies. Farfrom being mere plot summaries, Tales transforms Shakespeare's elegant andpoetic dialogue into thrilling and dramatic stories of love, betrayal andmagic. Beautifully illustrated with classic artwork by ArthurRackham, W. Paget, and Robert Anning Bell, Talesfrom Shakespeare provides a unique way to experience these enduring plays.

Book Tales from Shakespeare   with Original Illustrations

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare with Original Illustrations written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Tales from Shakespeare

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  • Author : Charles Lamb
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-03-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This little gem of a book was probably the first introduction to Shakespeare that most readers have had as children.Tales from Shakespeare was written in 1807 by a young clerk called Charles Lamb in the offices of the East India Company. Lamb co-authored them with his beloved sister Mary. The pair lived together for life, having gone through immense trauma caused by mental illness and tragedy. However, far from being a melancholy duo, they led an active and ample social life in the company of some of the literary greats of the Romantic movement of the 19th century. His glittering circle included contemporary poets like Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey and Leigh Hunt, the Chinese scholar Thomas Manning, political philosophers like William Godwin and his daughter the famous creator of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, and essayists like William Hazlitt. Charles Lamb also wrote excellent essays (compiled in a volume titled The Essays of Elia) and tried his hand at poetry and drama. Their regular Wednesday evening dinners were the gathering place for the best literary minds of the time.

Book Tales from Shakespeare

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  • Author : Charles Lamb
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-14
  • ISBN : 9781722988920
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare written by Charles Lamb and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from Shakespeare: (illustrated by Arthur Rackham with an introduction by Alfred Ainger) by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Arthur Rackham, Alfred Ainger First published in 1807, "Tales from Shakespeare" is the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays by brother and sister duo Charles and Mary Lamb. All told twenty of Shakespeare's plays are represented in this work. On what basis the two made their selection of tales is unknown, the English Histories are left unattempted, as well as the Roman Plays. Of the comedies only "Love's Labour's Lost" is omitted. As Alfred Ainger comments in his introduction "perhaps Miss Lamb felt how little would have remained of the original comedy when the poetical element in its language and the brilliant wit of its dialogue had been removed." What is represented of Shakespeare's plays is a magnificent retelling of some of his most popular works, ideal for introducing young readers to the brilliance of the Bard. As the two write in their preface "The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare," so "that the true Plays of Shakespeare may prove to them in older years-enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions." This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, includes an introduction by Alfred Ainger, and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Book Shakespeare

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  • Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales from Shakespeare

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  • Author : Charles Lamb
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-12-28
  • ISBN : 9781774410523
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Shakespeare in Tale and Verse  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Shakespeare in Tale and Verse Classic Reprint written by Lois Grosvenor Hufford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare in Tale and Verse The stories that constitute the main plots are given, and these are interspersed with the dramatic dialogue in such a manner as to make tale and verse interpret each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Illustrated Tales from Shakespeare

Download or read book Illustrated Tales from Shakespeare written by Charles Lamb and published by Longmeadow Press. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales from Shakespeare

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  • Author : Charles Lamb
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-08-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from Shakespeare is characterized by almost fairytale-like plot devices-complications arising from identical twins, magical forests, ghosts and witches, and foolish kings. The prose renditions of fourteen comedies and six tragedies are just as captivating for adults. Far from being mere plot summaries, the Tales closely follow the plays, frequently incorporating Shakespeare's exact language into the narratives and refusing to impose simplistic moral conclusions on the often-messy philosophical universe of Shakespearean drama.

Book Tales from Shakespeare

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Lamb Charles Lamb
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2013-05-02
  • ISBN : 9781484860526
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare written by Charles Lamb Charles Lamb and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 care 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 readers 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