| Description |
xxiv, 371 pages ; 16 cm |
| Series |
World's classics ; 212 |
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World's classics ; 212
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| Contents |
John Heminge (d. 1630) -- Preface to the first collection of Shakespeare's plays, 1623 / Henry Condell (d. 1627) -- The the memory of my beloved, the author, 1623 / Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- De Shakespeare nostrati, 1641 / Ben Jonson -- On Shakespeare, 1630 / John Milton (1608-74) -- On worthy Master Shakespeare and his poems, 1632 / I. M. S. -- William Shakespeare / Thomas Fuller (1608-61) -- Letter CXXIII, 1664 / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of New Castle (1624-74) -- From Of dramatick poesie, 1668 / John Dryden (1631-1700) -- From various prefaces and prologues / John Dryden -- From Theatrum Poetarum, 1675 / Edward Phillips (1630-96) -- From Some account of the life of Mr. William Shakespeare, 1709 / Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- From The spectator, 1711-14 / Richard Steele (1672-1729) -- From the Preface to Shakespeare's works, 1725 / Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- From the epistle to Augustus, 1737 / Alexander Pope -- From a letter to Richard West, 1742 / Thomas Gray (1716-71) -- From The progress of Poesy, 1757 / Thomas Gray -- From The adventurer, 1753-54 / Joseph Warton -- From Elements of criticism, 1762 / Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) -- From Dialogue of the dead, 1765 / George, Lord Lyttelton (1709-73) -- From the Prologue at the opening of Drury-Lane Theatrem 1747 / Samuel Johnson (1709-84) -- From the dedication to Shakespeare illustrated, 1753 / Samuel Johnson -- From the edition of Shakespeare's works, 1765 / Samuel Johnson -- From Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare, 1785 / Thomas Whately (d. 1772) -- From the introduction to A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters, 1774 / Maurice Morgann (1726-1802) -- On the tragedies of Shakespeare, 1811 / Charles Lamb (1775-1834) -- From Biographia literaria, 1817 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- From the Lectures / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From Table-talk / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From Characters of Shakespeare's plays, 1817 / William Hazlitt (1778-1830) -- From Lectures on the English poets, 1818 / William Hazlitt -- From Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth, 1820 / William Hazlitt -- From review of Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's plays, 1817 / Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) -- On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth, 1823 / Thomas De Quincy (1785-1859) -- From the article on Shakespeare in teh Encyclopedia britannica (7th ed.), 1838 / Thomas De Quincy -- From Imaginary conversations, 1846 / Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- The hero as poet, 1840 / Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Summary |
Includes works from John Heminge and Henry Condell (1623) to Carlyle (1840) |
| Notes |
First published 1916 |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Author |
Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962.
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