Not your daddy’s Shakespeare…

Book review:

Tales from Shakespeare

by Charles and Mary Lamb

Richard M. Powers, illustrator

Clifton Fadiman, afterword

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966

358 pages

These are pleasantly readable summaries of 20 plays by The Bard. The prose is modern English but it tends toward a Shakespearian feel.

Caveat: it’s not a substitute for reading the originals.

Tales from Shakespeare is a tempting refresher for folks who have “done” Shakespeare, and it’s a tempting invitation to the newcomer.

The play’s the thing!

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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2018 All rights reserved.

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