{"date":"November 26","id":"11-26","intro":["Charles Lamb, favorite essayist, thought that no stage could do justice to Shakespeare’s tragedies. He advocated reading the plays, and with the imagination costuming the players and building the gorgeous scenery in a way equaled by no scene painter or costumer."],"minutes":26,"readings":[{"author":"Charles Lamb","end":310,"start":299,"volume":27,"work":"On the Tragedies of Shakspere"}],"slug":"november-26","status":"proofread","title":"Shakespeare Should Be Heard","url":"/harvard-classics/november-26/","words":5212}