William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage Volume 5 1765-1774Brian Vickers Routledge, 2013 M02 1 - 568 pages The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes. |
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... Henry VIII had 54 performances at Drury Lane, which also saw no less than 43 performances of Colman's A Fairy Tale, an inept mangling of A Midsummer Night's Dream (see Vol. 4, pp. 22f.). Looking through these statistics one point stands ...
... Henry VIII had 54 performances at Drury Lane, which also saw no less than 43 performances of Colman's A Fairy Tale, an inept mangling of A Midsummer Night's Dream (see Vol. 4, pp. 22f.). Looking through these statistics one point stands ...
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... Henry Jones's The Earl of Essex (1753 : 57), and Ambrose Phillips's adaptation of Racine's Andromaque, The Distrest Mother (1712:51). Of the 20 most popular tragedies in London in 1765, then, only one had been written within a dozen ...
... Henry Jones's The Earl of Essex (1753 : 57), and Ambrose Phillips's adaptation of Racine's Andromaque, The Distrest Mother (1712:51). Of the 20 most popular tragedies in London in 1765, then, only one had been written within a dozen ...
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... (Henry VIII), and are most often histories, where the components of style are easily separable, not as densely interwoven as in the mature tragedies. These are expressions of period, rather than of individual taste. 66 Johnson's ...
... (Henry VIII), and are most often histories, where the components of style are easily separable, not as densely interwoven as in the mature tragedies. These are expressions of period, rather than of individual taste. 66 Johnson's ...
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... Henry IV: 'Perhaps no author has ever in two plays afforded so much delight' (Note 93). Again, Johnson pronounces what for him is one of the highest praises that can be given to a work of literature, that 'no man wished 70 it shorter ...
... Henry IV: 'Perhaps no author has ever in two plays afforded so much delight' (Note 93). Again, Johnson pronounces what for him is one of the highest praises that can be given to a work of literature, that 'no man wished 70 it shorter ...
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... Henry seduced by Falstaff. In the end-notes Johnson has more room to develop and sum up his response to the play. The end-notes on the early comedies often use the conventional categories of Neo-classicism, yet at times say important ...
... Henry seduced by Falstaff. In the end-notes Johnson has more room to develop and sum up his response to the play. The end-notes on the early comedies often use the conventional categories of Neo-classicism, yet at times say important ...
Contents
George Colman Johnsons edition reviewed 1765 | |
William Kenrick Johnson attacked 1765 | |
William Guthrie J ohnson reviewed 17656 | |
James Barclay Johnson defended 1766 | |
U nsigned essay on the deficiencies of English drama 1769 | |
Charles Jennens on editing King Lear 1770 | |
William Duff Shakespeares genius 1770 | |
Prancis Gentleman Shakespeare the dramatist 1770 | |
Paul Hiffernan idolizing Shakespeare 1770 | |
John Armstrong Shakespeare and the Unities 1770 | |
J R Ode to Shakespeare1771 | |
Richard Cumberland adaptation of Timon of Athens 1771 | |
Thomas Tyrwhitt on editing Shakespeare 1766 | |
George Steevens proposals for a new edition of Shakespeare 1766 | |
Richard Hurd Shakespeares pastorals 1766 | |
William Guthrie Farmer reviewed 1767 | |
T W on three Shakespearian tragedies 1768 | |
George Colman Farmer criticized 1768 | |
George Colman King Lear partly restored 1768 | |
Richard Warner Shakespeares language 1768 | |
Edward Capell introduction to Shakespeare 1768 | |
Elizabeth Montagu Shakespeares genlus 1769 | |
David Garrick Jubilee Ode to Shakespeare 1769 | |
Unsigned oration In honour of Shakepeare 1769 | |
John Potter Shakespeare in the theatre 17712 | |
George Steevens Shakespeare in the theatre 17712 | |
George Steevens advice to Garrick on adapting Hamlet 1771 | |
David Garrick adaptation of Hamlet 1772 | |
Various writersGarricks Hamlet reviewed 17723 | |
George Steevens Shakespeare in the theatre 17723 | |
Tate Wilkinson adaptation of Hamlet 1773 | |
Thomas Hawkins Eng1ish drama before Shakespeare 1773 | |
Edward Capell notes on Shakespeare 1774 | |
A Select Bibliography | |
Index | |
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