Characters of Shakespeare's Plays"Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by William Hazlitt is a book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays. It paved the way for the increased appreciation of Shakespeare's genius that was characteristic of later nineteenth-century criticism. It was also the first book to cover all of Shakespeare's plays, intended as a guide for the general reader. The center of attention is in large part on the characters, described often with a personal slant and using memorable expressions, and incorporating psychological insights that were to become highly influential in later criticism. |
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... light in 1805, An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argu-ment in favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind. Meantime, however—the ministry having been renounced—the question of a vocation became more and ...
... light in 1805, An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: Being an Argu-ment in favour of the Natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind. Meantime, however—the ministry having been renounced—the question of a vocation became more and ...
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... light or the music which Hazlitt communicates in his later and more famous essays. For the third point, Hazlitt had made enemies nor had ever been cautious of making them: and these enemies were now the 'upper dog'. Indeed, they always ...
... light or the music which Hazlitt communicates in his later and more famous essays. For the third point, Hazlitt had made enemies nor had ever been cautious of making them: and these enemies were now the 'upper dog'. Indeed, they always ...
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... light and shade , the soul and body of a work . ' This contention , for which Hazlitt fought all his life and fought brilliantly , is familiar to us by this time as the gage flung to didactic criticism by the 'impressionist', and in our ...
... light and shade , the soul and body of a work . ' This contention , for which Hazlitt fought all his life and fought brilliantly , is familiar to us by this time as the gage flung to didactic criticism by the 'impressionist', and in our ...
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... light they borrow; whenas truly he differs from them in kind and beyond any reach of degrees. One can no more estimate Shakespeare's genius in comparison with this, that, or the other man's of the sixteenth century, than Milton's in ...
... light they borrow; whenas truly he differs from them in kind and beyond any reach of degrees. One can no more estimate Shakespeare's genius in comparison with this, that, or the other man's of the sixteenth century, than Milton's in ...
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... light. His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius, nor reflected them. The shifting shapes of fancy, the rainbow hues of things, made no impression on him: he seized only on the permanent and tangible. He had no idea of ...
... light. His writings neither shone with the beams of native genius, nor reflected them. The shifting shapes of fancy, the rainbow hues of things, made no impression on him: he seized only on the permanent and tangible. He had no idea of ...
Contents
CYMBELINE | |
JULIUS CASESAR | |
OTHELLO | |
TIMON OF ATHENS | |
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA | |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA | |
LEAR | |
RICHARD II | |
HENRY IV | |
HENRY VI | |
RICHARD III | |
HENRY VIII | |
TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL | |
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA | |
HAMLET | |
THE TEMPEST | |
THE MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM | |
ROMEO AND JULIET | |
THE WINTERS TALE | |
ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL | |
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | |
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