Active in a literary circle which included William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary and Charles Lamb were writers active in London in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The brother and sister collaborated on their children's book Tales from Shakespeare, adapting Shakespeare's most famous work for children while preserving as much of the original language as possible.

Active in a literary circle which included William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary and Charles Lamb were writers active in London in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The brother and sister collaborated on their children's book Tales from Shakespeare, adapting Shakespeare's most famous work for children while preserving as much of the original language as possible.