"Who wrote under the pseudonym of ""Elia"" and, with his sister Mary, wrote ""Tales From Shakespeare""?"
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales the structure is much more complex." Garfield compared the task of trying to rewrite the plays as half-hour pieces as akin to "painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on a postage stamp." To maintain narrative integrity, Garfield added non-Shakespearean voice-over narration to each episode, which would usually introduce the episode and then fill in any plot points skipped over by the dialogue. The use of a narrator was also employed by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb in their own prose versions of Shakespeare's plays for children, "Tales from Shakespeare", published in 1807, to which Garfield's work is often compared.
Tales from Shakespeare Tales from Shakespeare Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807. The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young. Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; they wrote the preface between them. Marina Warner, in her introduction to the Penguin 2007 edition, says that Mary did not get her name on the title page till the seventh edition in 1838. "Tales from Shakespeare" has been republished many times. It was first published by the Juvenile Library of