Shakespeare's Play Story Collection (Vol. 1 & 2)

Author: Charles Lamb
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The characters and plots from Shakespeare's works become more profound, vivid, and captivating with the lifelike illustrations by the master painter John Gilbert. A complimentary VCD of Zhu Shenghao's translation of the Complete Works of Shakespeare is included, allowing those who are still immersed in the stories to continue savoring Shakespeare's classic charm. The book consists of two volumes, the Historical Plays and Tragedies & Comedies, printed in two colors. Let us understand Shakespeare and enter the hall of Western culture. The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Tragedies & Comedies not only includes Shakespeare's most famous four tragedies—Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth—and four comedies—The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night—but also other tragic and comic works, totaling twenty plays. In adapting the plays into stories, the original style is preserved to the greatest extent possible, allowing readers to fully appreciate Shakespeare's linguistic charm and taste the sweetness of the original works. The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Historical Plays collects stories adapted from Shakespeare's historical masterpieces, including Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Richard II, and Henry IV. In these stories, the smiles and frowns, words and actions of men and women from centuries past return to life, allowing us to understand their thoughts and desires, watch them fall in love, engage in battles, display cunning, achieve success, or flee in defeat.