The Lambs write that they hope their Tales will stimulate an appetite for Shakespeare in children, which children may gratify more fully as they mature: the Tales offer “little foretastes of the great pleasure which awaits them in their elder years.” The prose versions are also far shorter than the Shakespearean originals, and the plots and dialogue are therefore stripped down. Their retellings make substantial alterations, however, in framing Shakespeare’s plots with narrative explanation and moral interpretation. The Lambs’ adaptations include many direct quotations from Shakespeare, incorporated into dialogue in the tales or into narrative description.
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