Au début du XIXe siècle, Mary et Charles Lamb entreprirent d'adapter sous forme de contes l'ensemble des tragédies et des comédies de William Shakespeare. Le succès immédiat que connut ce recueil étonna les auteurs, qui l'avaient écrit en hommage au génie du dramaturge élisabéthain, et dans le but d'encourager les jeunes lecteurs à lire ses chefs-d'oeuvre, à développer leur imagination et à renforcer leur vertu. Aujourd'hui encore, toutes les jeunes filles et tous les jeunes garçons d'Outre-Manche découvrent grâce à ces contes pleins de magie, de poésie, de mort, de folie, d'amour et de rire les célèbres héros shakespeariens, qu'ils soient tragiques comme Hamlet, Ophélie, Othello, Desdémone, Roméo et Juliette, ou drôles et merveilleux comme Ariel, Puck, Obéron ou Titania. Les Contes de Shakespeare n'avaient pas été traduits intégralement depuis plus de cent cinquante ans. Cette nouvelle version française restitue la langue magnifique, aussi baroque que romantique, qui caractérise cette rareté littéraire devenue un classique en Angleterre.
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, "I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers".
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 possible avoided. (from the Author's Preface)
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