# Tales from Shakespeare

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- Book: [Tales from Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-lamb/tales-from-shakespeare) ([Tales from Shakespeare.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-lamb/tales-from-shakespeare.md))
- Authors: [Charles Lamb](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-lamb), [Mary Lamb](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-lamb), [William Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-shakespeare)
- Publisher: Puffin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 3 h 54 min
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Andrew Sachs, Juliet Stevenson
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-636-6
- Published: 2010-05-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 3 h 54 min

## Description

Discover Shakespeare's best-loved plays with this fantastic, unabridged and downloadable audiobook edition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, read by Alan Cumming, Juliet Stevenson, Nigel Davenport and Andrew Sachs. A perfect introduction for all ages to the breadth and beauty of Shakespeare's work. Tales from Shakespeare has become a classic work in its own right. The tales bring vividly to life the power of Hamlet and Macbeth , the fun of A Midsummer Night's Dream , and the drama of The Tempest . Blending detailed narrative with original dialogue and poetic language, they fully convey the wit, wisdom and imagination of Shakespeare's magnificent plays. Includes King Lear , The Tempest, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Measure for Measure.