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Tales from Shakespeare / by Charles and Mary Lamb ; illustrations by W. Paget.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia PR2877 .L3 1900
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Rahway, N.J. : Mershon, [190-?]
- Summary:
- Shakespeare's fourteen comedies and six tragedies retold in prose.
- Contents:
- The tempest
- A midsummer night's dream
- The winter's tale
- Much ado about nothing
- As you like it
- Two gentlemen of Verona
- The merchant of Venice
- Cymbeline
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- All's well that ends well
- The taming of the shrew
- The comedy of errors
- Measure for measure
- Twelfth night, or, what you will
- Timon of Athens
- Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Othello
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Grey illustrated cloth hardback with brown lettering to a yellow background to the front and spine. Illustration of a woman in red to the frontboard and a jester to the spine.
- Athenaeum's copy inscribed at head of flyleaf: "Wilbur F. Chapman from Aunt Madge, 3/1/1937."
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert E. Linck.
- OCLC:
- 70512928
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