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. 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. (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 from Shakespeare (Penguin Popular Classics) Lamb, Charles and Lamb, Mary Published by Penguin Classics, 2007 ISBN 10: 0140621598 ISBN 13: 9780140621594 Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, United Kingdom Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Softcover Condition: Used Very Good £ 1.23 Convert currency £ 1. The first, 1807 issue of the Tales was published with this spelling.
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