![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() The first, 1807 issue of the Tales was published with this spelling. ![]()
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