
Mary suffered from mental illness, and in 1796, aged 31, she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare (1807).

Indents in the last paragraphs of two stories. Mary Anne Lamb (3 December 1764 ) was an English writer. Reproduce a couple of textual tricks such as tapering these simple retellings of the plots of Shakespeares plays have delighted generations of children, while serving as an. This entertaining collection transports listeners back to. Within the pages of this book, the 19th-century authors bring to life the Shakespearean plots and characters of another age in an easy-to-understand prose of a newer generation. To the appropriate places in the text, and we could not Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb is a retelling of 20 of Shakespeare’s most beloved stories. Require them we have moved the position of the pictures From Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1909 The Taming of the Shrew K ATHERINE, the Shrew, was the eldest daughter of Baptista, a rich gentleman of Padua. From an early age she helped support the family by doing needlework. Born into a poor family, Mary Lamb received little formal education. To several stories whose page layout in the book did not Mary Ann Lamb, (born December 3, 1764, London, Englanddied May 20, 1847, London), English writer, known for Tales from Shakespear, written with her brother Charles. Tokuya Matsumoto and donated to Project Gutenberg.Īnd restore italicized phrases. We use the public domain files first scanned by Lamb suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare.

Mary wrote most of the comedies, about 14 of the 20. Mary Ann Lamb (3 December 1764 ), was an English writer. We present here the edition as illustrated (1764-1847) in 1807 as a prose adaptation forĬhildren. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1899, 1909Ĭharles Lamb (1775-1834) and his sister Mary Lamb 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.Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb Download cover art Download CD case insert Tales from ShakespeareĬharles Lamb (1775 - 1834) and Mary Lamb (1764 - 1847)
