Tales from Shakespeare
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Tales from Shakespeare
Charles and Mary Lamb retell twenty of Shakespeare’s plays as stories for young readers, keeping as much of his own language as they could.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 4–9
- First published
- 1807
- This edition
- All twenty tales, with the Lambs’ preface.
- Pages
- 254
- Prompts
- 20, one at the close of each tale
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every tale of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Ariel reminds Prospero of his promise, saying he has “told you no lies” and served “without grudge or grumbling.” Prospero replies with the tree where Sycorax shut Ariel up. Does that reply answer him? Number each time Prospero speaks of freeing him, down to the last.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages254
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts20, one at the close of each tale
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio