莎士比亚戏剧故事:TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE

《莎士比亚戏剧故事:TALESFROM SHAKESPEARE》，由英国18世纪著名作家查尔斯·兰姆与姐姐玛丽·兰姆共同改写而成，原是为英国儿童写的通俗读物，现已成为全世界莎剧初学者必读的入门书。《莎士比亚戏剧故事》收录了莎士比亚著名的20部戏剧，其中12部喜剧，包括《暴风雨》《仲夏夜之梦》《无事生非》《皆大欢喜》《威尼斯商人》《第十二夜》等；8部悲剧，包括《罗密欧与朱丽叶》《奥赛罗》《丹麦王子哈姆莱特》《麦克白》《李尔王》等，囊括了莎士比亚在各创作时期的不同作品类型。

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Talesfrom Shakespeare is an English children’s book written by Charles Lamb and hissister Mary Lamb in 1807. The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare’splays familiar to the young. However, as noted in the author’s Preface, “[Shakespeare’s]words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whateverhas been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligentcare has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect ofthe beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introducedinto our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.”

MaryLamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; theywrote the preface between them. The book has been republished many times. Itwas illustrated by Sir John Gilbert (1866), Arthur Rackham (1899,1909), Louis Monzièsin (1908), Walter Paget (1910), D. C. Eyles (1934, 1938).