莎士比亞戲劇故事（英文）

由英國18世紀著名作家查爾斯•蘭姆與姐姐瑪麗•蘭姆共同改寫而成，原是為英國兒童寫的通俗讀物，現已成為全世界莎劇初學者必讀的入門書。《莎士比亞戲劇故事》收錄了莎士比亞著名的20部戲劇，其中12部喜劇，包括《暴風雨》《仲夏夜之夢》《無事生非》《皆大歡喜》《威尼斯商人》《第十二夜》等；8部悲劇，包括《羅密歐與朱麗葉》《奧賽羅》《丹麥王子哈姆萊特》《麥克白》《李爾王》等，囊括了莎士比亞在各創作時期的不同作品類型。

《莎士比亞戲劇故事》為英文原版，同時提供配套英文朗讀免費下載，詳見圖書封底二維碼信息。讓讀者在欣賞莎翁優美劇作的同時，亦能提升英語閱讀水平。

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. However, as noted in the author』s 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 beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.」

Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; they wrote the preface between them. The book has been republished many times. It was illustrated by Sir John Gilbert (1866), Arthur Rackham (1899,1909), Louis Monziès in (1908), Walter Paget (1910), D. C. Eyles (1934, 1938).