ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Tales from Shakespeare is a collection of 20 stories. It was adapted for young readers from the original plays by William Shakespeare. The book was written with an intention to modernise the archaic English and complicated story line of Shakespeare to a simple level that children could read and comprehend.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, The Tempest. The fairy tale quality and family life themes of these stories make a truly meaningful introduction for children to Shakespeare’s plays.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lamb had a fine appreciation of poetry, a wide knowledge of the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, and an antiquarian’s specialized awareness of textual problems, but it is by his character analyses that his position is best established as a critic of insight and originality.