Ernest Rhys

“ Charles himself had done "Othello" and "Macbeth," and said it was his intention to do all the tragedies.
We get other interesting glimpses of the tales from Mary. "You would like to see us," she says, "as we often sit writing on one table (but not on one cushion sitting) , like Hermia and Helena in the 'Midsummer Night's Dream'; or, rather, like an old literary Darby and Joan; I taking snuff, and he groaning all the while, and saying he can make nothing of it, which he always says till he has finished, and then he finds that he has made something of it." ”

“ Later on, Mary writes that "Charles has been reading over the tale I told you plagued me so much, and he thinks it's one of the very best: it is 'All's well that ends well.'" Finally, we find on Jan. 29th, 1807, Charles writing to Wordsworth, "We have booked off from Swan and Two Necks, Lad Lane, this day (per coach) , the 'Tales from Shakespeare.' . . . We think 'Pericles' of hers the best, and 'Othello' of mine; but I hope all have some good."
Charles Lamb died at Edmonton in 1834. Mary Lamb lived for some years after him, and dying in 1847, was buried by his side in Edmonton churchyard. ”

“ Life (by Sir T. N. Talfourd) , Letters, and Writings (edited by Percy Fitzgerald) , The Temple Edition (printed from the stereotype plates of Moxon's Edition) , 6 vols., 1895; Life and Works, introduction and notes by A. Ainger, 12 vols., 1899-1900; Works (edited by W. Macdonald) , 12 vols., 1903. ”