Charles lamb brief biography of william shakespeare

English essayist, poet, and antiquarian (1775–1834)

For other uses, see Charles Lamb (disambiguation).

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E.

V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".^[1]

Youth and schooling

Lamb was born in London, the son of John Lamb (c. 1725–1799) and Elizabeth (died 1796), née Field.^[2] Lamb had an elder brother, also John, and sister, Mary; four other siblings did not survive infancy.

John Lamb (Lamb's father) was a lawyer's clerk^[3