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Titles in this set 1. Tales from Shakespeare - Hamlet and Other Stories. 2. Tales from Shakespeare - As You Like it and Other Stories. Tales from Shakespeare also known as All the Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by Charles Lamb with his sister Mary Lamb in 1807. The book reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare to a simple level that children could read and comprehend. Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies, they wrote the preface between them. Next to his essays, this book is his best-known work, yet its success is attributable more to Mary, whose name did not appear on the title page of the first few editions than to Charles.