Tales from Shakespeare
Charles Lamb
Read by Karen Savage
The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his 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 beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided. (from the Author's Preface) (8 hr 29 min)
Chapters
| Author's Preface | 4:46 | Read by Karen Savage |
| The Tempest | 21:21 | Read by Karen Savage |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 21:36 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Winter's Tale | 21:11 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 23:33 | Read by Karen Savage |
| As You Like It | 29:33 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | 22:55 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Merchant of Venice | 24:36 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Cymbeline | 23:19 | Read by Karen Savage |
| King Lear | 27:20 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Macbeth | 20:31 | Read by Karen Savage |
| All's Well That Ends Well | 23:56 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Taming of the Shrew | 19:56 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Comedy of Errors | 24:55 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Measure for Measure | 29:21 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Twelfth Night; or What You Will | 25:11 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Timon of Athens | 25:04 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Romeo and Juliet | 33:02 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | 29:10 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Othello | 25:16 | Read by Karen Savage |
| Pericles, Prince of Tyre | 33:21 | Read by Karen Savage |
Reviews
Potowome
Superb - both in form and style, as well as reading!
5 stars!
Polar
Charming voice & well reading. Reading speed is a bit fast. I like that, too.
mid summer nights dream is great And so is one rest!
Chaos for Breakfast
😁😁😁😁😁The tempest is best so good and hamlet is the best. I love this so much!!!!
Ken Hendren
A wonderful reading! Thank you so much for bringing these stories alive.
Unknown
What an amazing reading by Karen Savage! Thank you.
Good intro
Sarah
Well written versions, excellently read.
Sandy
Well read! Thank you, Karen Savage!
A LibriVox Listener
I really enjoyed this book! the reader did a great job!