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Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare [1901] (Measure for Measure Pages 208-209)
Excerpt from Measure for Measure (Pages 208-209)
Characters’ motives and actions are stated in the Lambs’ Tales, where readers of the plays must interpret them for themselves.
Characters’ motives and actions are stated in the Lambs’ Tales, where readers of the plays must interpret them for themselves.
Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare [1901] (Preface)
The Lambs’ preface explains the conversion to prose as a way to support introductory study of Shakespeare by children and describes an effort to preserve Shakespeare’s own language as much as possible.Page 5:The Lambs write of the difficulty of…
Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare [1923] (Cymbeline)
An illustration for the Lambs’ telling of Cymbeline. Iachimo sneaks out of the chest where he has concealed himself to spy on sleeping Imogen. The Petershams emphasize the textures and lineation of the room’s furnishings as well as Iachimo’s sly…
Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare [1923] (Midsummer Night's Dream)
An illustration for the Lamb’s telling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Puck disrupts churning. Again the depicted vignette is not part of the play or story but merely referenced in it.
Tate, The History of King Lear (Page 4)
Page 4: Cordelia’s criticism of Lear’s demand to occupy sole place in his daughters’ hearts is understood by Lear in Tate’s version as deriving from her love for Edgar.
Tate, The History of King Lear (Page 63)
Page 63: In Tate’s version, Lear turns action hero, seizing a weapon from the guards and successfully fighting them off until Edgar and Albany rescue him and Cordelia.
Tate, The History of King Lear (Pages 66-67)
Pages 66-67: Tate’s Lear ends with Lear and Gloucester alive and reconciled to their children, and Edgar and Cordelia jointly placed on English throne by Lear.
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