Tales from Shakespeare
Author: first_name: Charles
last_name: Lamb
first_name:  Mary
last_name: Lamb
Language: English
Year: 1807

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 po