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Краткое содержание: Сказки Шекспира
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
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Prospero conjures a storm, Portia argues in a lawyer's robes, and Hamlet meets a ghost in twenty short tales.
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Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 3 min3 min fast, 4 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 754
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Сложное чтение long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Первая публикация
- 1807by Чарльз Лэмб; Мэри Лэмб
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Сказки Шекспира in short
Charles and Mary Lamb keep Shakespeare's own words whenever they can, and they add only what is needed to join the scenes. The tales move from comedies and romances with magic and disguises into jealousy, ambition and family feud. You keep a map of Shakespeare's world, from Prospero and Puck to Portia, Lear and Hamlet.
What Сказки Шекспира is about
What would it take to hand Shakespeare to a child? Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb answered by turning twenty of the plays into short prose tales.
The Lambs wrote these tales as a first taste of the plays. They kept Shakespeare's own words wherever they could.
Для кого. Readers who enjoy fairy tales and old stories will love this collection, as will those eager to meet Shakespeare's best-known plots. It also suits anyone who likes reading aloud to children.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
The Lambs keep Shakespeare's own words
Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb wrote these tales for young readers who could not yet take on the plays. Their preface states the rule they followed. Wherever possible, the words on the page are Shakespeare's own.
When they had to add words to join the scenes into stories, they chose carefully. They avoided words that entered the language after his time.
In the comedies, his speech is hard to turn into narration, so those tales lean on dialogue. In the tragedies, his words often pass straight into the narration. The Lambs hope readers will wish for the day when they may read the plays whole.
Each tale works like a doorway.
The book is a first meeting with Shakespeare, never a replacement for the plays.
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A magician on an island tests young love
The book opens with The Tempest.
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Lovers lose their way in the fairy wood
A Midsummer Night's Dream begins in Athens, where a law lets a father demand that his daughter marry his choice or die.
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A jealous king breaks his own household
The Winter's Tale starts with two boyhood friends, Leontes, King of Sicily, and Polixenes, King of Bohemia.
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Merry plots and disguises in Messina and Arden
Much Ado About Nothing is set in Messina.
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Friendship, debt and a cruel bond
Two Gentlemen of Verona opens with friends who love differently.
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Kings, thanes and the cost of bad judgment
Cymbeline begins in ancient Britain.
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Mistaken faces and wedding bargains in comedy
All's Well That Ends Well begins with Helena, a physician's daughter who loves the young Count Bertram.
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Falling fortunes, family feuds and hidden poison
Timon of Athens shows a lord who gives away his wealth to anyone who flatters him.
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What the tales give, and how to read them
What stays with a reader once the plots are known?
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Prospero The exiled Duke of Milan, who rules an island through magic and tests his daughter's suitor.
- Portia A rich heiress of Belmont who dresses as a lawyer to save her husband's friend from a cruel bond.
- Beatrice A quick-witted lady of Messina who trades insults with Benedick and defends her cousin Hero.
- Rosalind A banished duke's daughter who dresses as a shepherd boy in the Forest of Arden and teaches Orlando how to woo.
- Viola A shipwrecked girl who serves Duke Orsino as a page named Cesario while loving him in secret.
- King Lear An aged king who divides his land among his daughters according to their words of love.
- Hamlet A grieving Danish prince who meets his father's ghost and pretends to be mad.
- Iago An officer who resents Cassio's promotion and plots to make Othello doubt his wife.
How it ends (spoiler)
The book closes with Pericles. He finds his lost daughter Marina at Mitylene and then follows a dream to the temple of Diana at Ephesus. There the priestess Thaisa, his wife, believed drowned, knows his voice. The family is reunited, and Marina is betrothed to Lysimachus. In Tarsus, the people burn the cruel Dionysia and Cleon in their palace.
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Вопросы о книге Сказки Шекспира
What is Tales from Shakespeare about?
It retells twenty Shakespeare plays as short prose stories, from The Tempest to Pericles. Comedies, romances and tragedies appear in turn, each in a few pages, using many of Shakespeare's own words.
Who wrote Tales from Shakespeare?
Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb wrote it. Mary is generally credited with the comedies and Charles with the tragedies. They meant it as an introduction to Shakespeare for young readers.
Which plays are in Tales from Shakespeare?
It covers twenty plays, including The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello and Pericles.
Is Tales from Shakespeare easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that each tale is short, told in plain prose and follows one clear plot. Many speeches come straight from Shakespeare, so the dialogue gives each story a lively rhythm.
Is Tales from Shakespeare worth reading before the plays?
Yes. Knowing the plots, names and main speeches in advance makes the plays easier to follow on the stage or page, and the tales work well for reading aloud with children.
Как сослаться на это издание
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Tales from Shakespeare. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-from-shakespeare.
Lamb, C., & Lamb, M. (2026). Tales from Shakespeare. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-from-shakespeare (Original work published 1807)
Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Tales from Shakespeare. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tales-from-shakespeare.
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