本书中的故事是写给青年读者的，可作为读解莎士比亚的入门。为此，书中尽可能使用莎士比亚自己的语言。即便是为把原作编写成前后连贯的故事形式而添加词语，也是字斟句酌，努力做到尽可能少地损害莎士比亚那优美漂亮的语言效果。因此，我们也是尽量避免使用后莎士比亚时代的语言。（Stories in this book are intended for young readers and may serve as an introduction for them to read Shakespeare. For this purpose, this book was written with Shakespeare's own language as far as possible. Even if some words and expressions were added to compile the original works into coherent stories, such words and expressions have been weighed to minimize the damage on the beautiful language effect of Shakespeare. Hence, we have done our best to avoid using the language after the time of Shakespeare. ）