Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb

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Why Is Charles Lamb Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Charles Lamb 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 . 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".

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What Are Charles Lamb's Academic Contributions?

Charles Lamb has made the following academic contributions:

• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet
• Othello
• King Lear