Author: Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.
Mad Mary Lamb
Author: Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. This narrative of a nearly forgotten woman is a tapestry of insights into creativity and madness, the changing lives of women, and the redemptive power of the written word.
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465588027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465588027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Tales from Shakespeare
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time
Author: Robert McCrum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903385838
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903385838
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Tales from Shakespeare (Book 2)
Author: Madhubun
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House
ISBN: 8125952195
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Tales from Shakespeare has reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare, to a simple level that children can read and comprehend. The following plays have been selected and adapted into tales for the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House
ISBN: 8125952195
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Tales from Shakespeare has reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare, to a simple level that children can read and comprehend. The following plays have been selected and adapted into tales for the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare
Othello
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher: Capercaillie Books
ISBN: 9780954290542
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
'The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare.' From the preface to the original edition.
Publisher: Capercaillie Books
ISBN: 9780954290542
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
'The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare.' From the preface to the original edition.
Chaucer as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078648151X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he often receives little notice in studies of children's literature. However, there is a fascinating relationship between Chaucer and children's interests. This book examines in detail Chaucer stories retold for children--both the texts and the illustrations, which are excellent examples of the verbal and visual storytelling that are very important in children's literature. The popularity of certain Chaucer stories, their adjustment for children, and the historical, political, educational, and social contexts of the retellings reveal Victorian and Edwardian attitudes. The author also considers how retellings of Chaucer stories contributed to the traditional view of Chaucer as the Father of English and how this view of him was developed at the turn of the twentieth century as part of an expansion of general education and English studies.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078648151X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he often receives little notice in studies of children's literature. However, there is a fascinating relationship between Chaucer and children's interests. This book examines in detail Chaucer stories retold for children--both the texts and the illustrations, which are excellent examples of the verbal and visual storytelling that are very important in children's literature. The popularity of certain Chaucer stories, their adjustment for children, and the historical, political, educational, and social contexts of the retellings reveal Victorian and Edwardian attitudes. The author also considers how retellings of Chaucer stories contributed to the traditional view of Chaucer as the Father of English and how this view of him was developed at the turn of the twentieth century as part of an expansion of general education and English studies.
The Lambs of London
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030738702X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
From the author of Chatterton and Shakespeare: A Biography comes a gripping novel set in London that re-imagines an infamous 19th-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for Children, are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents. Reading Shakespeare is the siblings’ favorite reprieve, and they are delighted when an ambitious young bookseller comes into their lives claiming to possess a ‘lost’ Shakespearea play. Soon all of London is eagerly anticipating opening night of a star-studded production of the play not knowing that they have all been duped by charlatan and a fraud.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030738702X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
From the author of Chatterton and Shakespeare: A Biography comes a gripping novel set in London that re-imagines an infamous 19th-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for Children, are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents. Reading Shakespeare is the siblings’ favorite reprieve, and they are delighted when an ambitious young bookseller comes into their lives claiming to possess a ‘lost’ Shakespearea play. Soon all of London is eagerly anticipating opening night of a star-studded production of the play not knowing that they have all been duped by charlatan and a fraud.
Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Children's Shakespeare
Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, written especially for children.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, written especially for children.