Tales from Shakespeare is a children's book which makes the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young. Shakespeare's exact words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in, meticulous care has been taken to select such words as might least disturb the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote. The book contains: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Timon of Athens, Hamlet, Othello & Pericles, Prince of Tyre.