Poverty shouldn't stop mothers from giving their babies experience of smell and sound and touch and. The idea was to inculcate in poor women the understanding that their babies from the very moment they were born would respond to any stimuli. I vaguely recall some years ago Venezuela set up a government department called the Ministry of Love. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb),Īnd Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb). This most recent adaptation of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare will enthrall a new generation of children. The book contains the following tales: 1.The Tempest (Mary Lamb) 2.A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mary Lamb) 3.The Winter's Tale (Mary Lamb) 4.Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb) 5.As You Like It (Mary Lamb) 6.Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb) 7.The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb) 8.Cymbeline (Mary Lamb) 9.King Lear (Charles Lamb) 10.Macbeth (Charles Lamb) 11.All's Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb) 12.The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb) 13.The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb) 14.Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb) 15.Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb) 16.Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb) 17.Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb) 18.Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb) 19.Othello (Charles Lamb) 20.Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, William Shakespeare However, as noted in the authors' Preface, ' 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.' Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies they wrote the preface between them.

The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young.

Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb in 1807.

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