Shakespeare for Children Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Just right for family reading time, both to enjoy the stories and to learn about them prior to viewing a stage performance or movie version. "

" Dense, dry, and difficult to follow. I can't imagine how this book became so popular. There must be better options out there. "

" readable to kids and adults! "

" Quite good. Allows you to get at the story of the plays without sifting through tedious dialogue. It incorporates all the main and most famous quotes from his best known plays and it is well written with all the important plot details. It is quite amazing how many Shakespeare plays involve people giving away rings their lovers gave them and cases of mistaken identity. Added to this is that fact that Shakespeare's characters fall in and out of love at the drop of a hat or during random eye contact. But a good rendition all in all. "

" I got more than half-way through this and only neglected to finish it because it was due back at the library. Wonderful summaries of the plays I have read, and the summaries of the ones I hadn't read made me want to read them. "

" This book entertained me really good and it was on about shakespear. "

" One of those childhood classics. I don't think I've read it all, but I did read the complete works of Shakespeare instead. "

" such a great book! easy to read because they limit the amount of dialogue in it. easy to understand. "

" Especially for Lovely Lucy. My intellectual grandaughter. The best beginner's Shakespeare. Easy read and very entertaining. "

" This is a wonderful little book. The language of 19th century England is so beautiful. This book contains brief synopses of all of Shakespeare's major plays, written in Elizabethan English. Gorgeous! "

" Excellent book to recap on a shakespeare play or to read along with. "

" Charles and Mary Lamb definitely did us a service, by putting forth many of Shakespeare's play in a story format. Now that I have a grasp of the stories, I think it will be much easier to follow his actual plays. "

" So helpful. I fell in love with (and memorized) Shakespeare's stories before I could fully understand his language. I credit this book as one of the reasons people tell me that I'm the best Shakespeare storyteller ever. "

" This is a good book for those of us who like Shakespeare, but have a hard time with his flowery writing. It's got all of the Shakespeare stories, but not the "ye olde english" writing. "

" This was my first introduction to shakespear. I would highly recomend it for thise just starting or for younger readers. "

" It wasn't a bad introduction to Shakespeare when I was a kid. Even though I'm not a big fan of abridgments or adaptations, I felt like this was okay. "

" Lest you think I'm taking the short cut this is not cliffs notes! "

" This books helps to take Shakespeare out of "play" format into story-telling - great for reading with the kids - and an intro to the much longer play and old-English format. "

" I'm reading this to the kids to familiarize them with the plays of Shakespeare. We read one every couple of weeks. "

" This book was a good introduction to some of the plays I haven't read yet and a good review of those I have studied. "

" For those who have read the original Shakespeare plays will find this book a guide! "

" This was the only form of Shakespeare I could tolerate to read. I wish I still had my copy! "

" It was a good idea to write the stories out, if there are any faults it's just the ideas of the stories themselves, and they came from the playwrite. "

" These retellings make me want to re-read the plays, and see the ones that I have missed. "

" Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb (2006) "

" Have seen the movies, read and reread many stories, but it is always nice to read about the human condition again, and to find out nothing has ever changed about people s good and dark sides. "