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Bartleby.com: Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb HandoutBartleby.com: Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb Handout
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9th - 10th
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Bartleby.com: Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb

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Mary Lamb, with the editorial help of her brother, Charles, rewrote twenty of Shakespeare's plays into stories for children. This is a copy of the tex which introduced Shakespeare to many people of all ages throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.

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a midsummer night's dream, as you like it, hamlet, king lear, macbeth, much ado about nothing, othello, pericles, romeo and juliet, the tempest, the winter's tale, twelfth night

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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