Tales from Shakespeare is a book by Charles Lamb. It introduces the reader to some of Shakespeare's biggest plays including Hamlet, Othello, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and more.

In those tales which have been taken from the Tragedies, the young readers will perceive, when they come to see the source from which these stories are derived, that Shakespeare's own words, with little alteration, recur very frequently in the narrative as well as in the dialogue; but in those made from the Comedies the writers found themselves scarcely ever able to turn his words into the narrative form: therefore it is feared that, in them, dialogue has been made use of too frequently for young people not accustomed to the dramatic form of writing.But this fault, if it be a fault, has been...