Charles Lamb also wrote excellent essays (compiled in a volume titled The Essays of Elia) and tried his hand at poetry and drama. His glittering circle included contemporary poets like Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey and Leigh Hunt, the Chinese scholar Thomas Manning, political philosophers like William Godwin and his daughter the famous creator of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, and essayists like William Hazlitt. However, far from being a melancholy duo, they led an active and ample social life in the company of some of the literary greats of the Romantic movement of the 19th century. The pair lived together for life, having gone through immense trauma caused by mental illness and tragedy. Lamb co-authored them with his beloved sister Mary. Tales from Shakespeare was written in 1807 by a young clerk called Charles Lamb in the offices of the East India Company.
This little gem of a book was probably the first introduction to Shakespeare that most readers have had as children.
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