Although the book was Mary's idea and she was its primary writer, the Tales were published under Charles's name well into the twentieth century.1 By ignoring Mary we overlook not only her contribution to Tales from Shakespeare, but, even more important, the ways in which she deliberately directed this project toward a female audience. Mary began the project and wrote fourteen of the twenty tales (the comedies and romances), while Charles contributed versions of six tragedies.
As a result, her role in the composition of Tales from Shakespeare has been almost completely overlooked. Mary's family and friends, it seems, were kinder to her than literary history has been today she is remembered almost exclusively as the perpetrator of a lurid matricide. Mary recovered and spent the remainder of her long life looking after her brother Charles and writing children's books, including the popular Tales from Shakespeare (1807). Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.On September 21, 1796, in a fit of madness, Mary Lamb picked up a knife and fatally stabbed her mother. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. It is a captivating work of Romantic storytelling as well as the original literary homage to the Bard.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, Tales from Shakespeare provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, and rhythm. Celebrated prose retellings of Shakespeare's playsĬharles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed prose renderings of Shakespeare's originals.
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