The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed “the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned.

The works of Shakespeare, next to the Bible, are the most highly esteemed of all the classics of English literature. “So extensively have the characters of Shakespeare been drawn upon by artists, poets, and writers of fiction,” says an American author,--“So interwoven are these characters in the great body of English literature, that to be ignorant of the plot of these dramas is often a cause of embarrassment.”

But Shakespeare wrote for grown-up people, for men and women, and in words that little folks cannot understand. Hence this volume was the object had in view by the author of these Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare.

And that the youngest readers may not stumble in pronouncing any unfamiliar names to be met with in the stories, the editor has prepared and included in the volume a pronouncing vocabulary of difficult names. To which is added a collection of Shakespearean Quotations, classified in alphabetical order, illustrative of the wisdom and genius of the world’s greatest dramatist.

莎士比亞，為全世界所推崇的偉大作家，在他卓越的創作中所蘊含的人生智慧，啟發著世世代代的讀者。本書特別精選莎翁最著名的劇本，將之改寫為淺顯易懂的短篇故事，帶領你一探莎士比亞的文學殿堂。

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Volume 1
1.Hamlet
2.A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3.King Lear
4.The Taming of The Shrew
5.The Tempest
6.Cymbeline
7.As You Like It
8.The Comedy of Errors

Volume2
1.Romeo and Juliet
2.The Merchant of Venice
3.Macbeth
4.Twelfth Night
5.Othello
6.The Winter's Tale
7.Much Ado About Nothing
8.Measure for Measure