A collection of Shakespeare’s plays retold as stories for young readers by Mary Lamb.
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A collection of Shakespeare’s plays retold as stories for young readers by Mary Lamb.
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Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb in 1807. The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young.[1] However, as noted in the authors' Preface, "[Shakespeare's] words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the be...
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Romance & sex
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Minor references to romantic themes; no explicit content.
Violence & gore
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Moderate violence in retold stories; some death and conflict depicted.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Minor references to religious themes in historical context.
Magic & witchcraft
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Minor magical elements in retellings like Macbeth; not central.
Occult / demonology
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No evidence found in available sources.
Political content
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Minor political themes in stories of kings and power struggles.
Self-harm / suicide
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Minor references to tragic deaths in retold plays.
Abuse & suffering
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Minor depictions of betrayal and familial conflict.
Other
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