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Lamb, Charles
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Lamb, Charles (1775–1834), English critic and essayist, whose anthology of dramatists contemporary with Shakespeare, published in 1808, revealed to his contemporaries the little-known beauties of such playwrights as Marlowe, Webster, and Ford. In the
Essays of Elia (1823–33) he recalls many happy moments spent in the theatre and in the company of actors. His love for Shakespeare in particular led him to write in collaboration with his sister Mary
Tales from Shakespeare (1807), which, though now considered out of date, served as a pleasant and easy introduction to many of the plays for several generations of schoolchildren. Of his own four plays, a farce, Mr H—(1806), was produced, unsuccessfully, at
Drury Lane. The others were published but never played.
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Charles Lamb as the Janus of Romanticism in "New Year's Eve".
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Lamb's "New Year's Eve...finally, reemploying Charles Cotton's mythological...of an older style, Lamb quotes in its entirety...departed year 1820. But Lamb introduces this seventeenth...Chambers' "Life of Charles Cotton" (1810...
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Three unpublished songs by Charles Lamb for Mary Shelley.
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...December 1834. (2) Charles and Mary Lamb first met the young...friendship, the Lambs played an significant...admiration for the Lambs in various references...she also praised Charles Lamb's works in her...Rosamond Gray, by Charles Lamb, occurs to us as...711-16). The ...
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That Dangerous Figure: Charles Lamb and the Critics and Literature of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; That Dangerous Figure: Charles Lamb and the Critics. By Joseph E. Riehl...timely survey of critical readings of Charles Lamb runs the risk of drawing a similar...Seamus Perry in his excellent article 'Charles Lamb and the Cost of Seriousness...
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Empire, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb's consumer imagination.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Scholarship on Charles Lamb typically presents his...romantically coalesce in Charles Lamb's beloved essay...critical examinations of Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge...suggested as another source of Charles's supposed romantic agony...
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"Poor Percy Bishe!!" Charles Lamb's "A Dissertation on Roast Pig" in context.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...William Gifford quoted extensively from Lamb's "Confessions of a Drunkard" and...tragedy belittled by a glib panacea--Lamb explicitly cites neither Shelley nor his...diet" in "Roast Pig." Moreover, the Lambs were very fond of the poet's widow...the months leading up to "Roast Pig," Lamb was fast ...
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BOOKS: FETCH THE STRAITJACKET Charles Lamb's `Essays of Elia' are sparkling classics of prose, but, as Mark Bostridge relates, behind his urbanity lurked the demons of madness and despair; A Double Life: A biography of Charles and Mary Lamb By Sarah Burton VIKING pounds 16.99 pounds 14.99 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 8/17/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the folk or fairy tale, the Lambs, like their friends Coleridge...might be extinguished. Mary Lamb, 11 years her brother's...comedies and histories, while Charles wrote the six tragedies - though only Charles's name appeared on the title...damned infernal bitch" as the Lambs called her) who ...
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EDMOND CITY COUNCIL MEMBER CHARLES LAMB INDUCTED INTO OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME FOR CITY AND TOWN OFFICIALS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/28/2006; 629 words
; ...inducted Edmond City Council Member Charles Lamb into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame For City and Town Officials. Lamb was one of four inductees recognized...nominated Lamb, said "I nominated Charles because of his extensive record of...
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A portrait of Charles Lamb.
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/19/1985; ; 587 words
; CHARLES LAMB is one of those writers who are remembered...and Marry Shelley. In A Portrait of Charles Lamb, David Cecil, the distinguished...kindness of his father's employer, Charles was educated at the famous London school...
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Spellbinding London: Charles Lamb's "Ella" and the old country house.(London, England)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...historical context for a reading of Charles Lamb's essayistic persona, "Elia...essays' collective conversion of Lamb's own childhood encounter with a...historical specificity: that "resituating Lamb within the pages of the London Magazine...
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From Charles Lamb to 'netiquette'
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...which the most famous exponent was Charles Lamb. Familiar essays, cherished in...she has 'a monumental crush' on Lamb, and one can't help admiring her...s say, or Virginia Woolf. But Charles Lamb -- that takes courage. The...
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Charles Lamb
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...young and old, and the Lambs followed up this success...same vein. In 1808 Charles published his own version...Children. Meanwhile Lamb began a new aspect of...remains the hallmark of Lamb's style. In 1823 Charles and Mary met and eventually...Isola. In August the Lambs moved from ...
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Lamb, Charles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Lamb, Charles (1775–1834), was born in London. His father, the...a volume of poems by Coleridge. In 1798 appeared Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb, which included the poem ‘The Old Familiar Faces...
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Lamb, John (d. 1628)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Lamb, John (d. 1628) Lamb was a noted astrologer and reputed sorcerer in the time of Charles I. In Certainty of the World of Spirits...recorded an apocryphal account in which Lamb met two acquaintances who wished to...
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Lamb, Mary Ann
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Lamb, Mary Ann (1764–1847), sister of Charles Lamb , with whom she wrote Tales from Shakespear (1807); and she wrote the greater part of Mrs Leicester's School (1809). For details of her life, see under Lamb, C.
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Edmund Charles Blunden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edmund Charles Blunden 1896-1974, English author. Beginning his career as a poet...also biographical and critical studies of Leigh Hunt (1930), Charles Lamb (1933), and Shelley (1946). From 1966 to 1968 he served as professor...
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