I read this book because of how often it’s mentioned in 19th century Victorian novels (as well as novels about Victorian England) as being just one of those novels on the shelves in houses for children. There’s something fascinating about this book in a kind historical sense, and relatively boring in a literary sense. So the book was published in 1807 and is a prose version of a handful of Shakespeare plays: King Lear, Othello, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, […]