Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare [1901] (Preface)

Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare [1901] (Preface)

The Lambs’ preface explains the conversion to prose as a way to support introductory study of Shakespeare by children and describes an effort to preserve Shakespeare’s own language as much as possible.
Page 5: The Lambs write of the difficulty of translating adult stories into terms a “young mind” may understand. These tales, they write, are particularly designed for girls, who are not often allowed to read Shakespeare’s “manly book.”
Page 6: The preface ends with the strongest possible moral claims made on behalf of Shakespeare’s “true Plays” as strengthening all virtues and inhibiting “all selfish and mercenary thoughts."

Mary Lamb
Charles Lamb

University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, OR

E.P. Dutton

1901

Public Domain Mark 1.0. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.

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New York, New York