![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately it is the uncertainties and ambiguities of these “wild tales” that continue to have an impact on the shaping of Shakespeare for the child-reader. Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespear presented prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays, in language intended for children. Godwin and Co., at the Juvenile Library, 1816. ![]() Follow Author Charles Lamb > Quotes () Showing 1-30 of 56 Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. Be the first to learn about new releases Start by following Charles Lamb. Taking its cue from Charles Lamb's comment to Coleridge about the need to rouse the child-reader's “beautiful Interest in wild tales”, this essay discusses the Lambs’ attempts to open up what they term the “wild poetic garden” of Shakespeare's language for the early nineteenth-century child-reader, and shows how the “wildness” of the Tales is a contested, divided concept. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and Mary Lamb (1764-1847) Tales From Shakespear, Designed for the Use of Young Persons. Charles Lamb Quotes (Author of Tales from Shakespeare) Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. (1807) may be read on multiple levels: not purely as an influential adaptation of Shakespeare, but also as a politically and ideologically informed intervention in the children's book market through its publication by the Godwins’ “Juvenile Library”, and, furthermore, as a very personal negotiation with concepts of childhood and family, imagination and control, inflected by the Lambs’ own experiences. Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as anintroduction to the study of Shakespeare. The first, 1807 issue of the Tales was published with this spelling. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb. ![]()
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