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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... whole edition went off in six weeks; and yet it was a half-guinea book.' [Footnote: Memoirs of William Hazlitt, by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1887. Vol. i, p. 228.] The reader, who comes to it through this Introduction, will note two points to ...
... whole edition went off in six weeks; and yet it was a half-guinea book.' [Footnote: Memoirs of William Hazlitt, by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1887. Vol. i, p. 228.] The reader, who comes to it through this Introduction, will note two points to ...
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... whole , more discriminating and judicious , there are not many points on which , especially after reading his eloquent exposition of them , we should be much inclined to disagree with him . The book , as we have already intimated , is ...
... whole , more discriminating and judicious , there are not many points on which , especially after reading his eloquent exposition of them , we should be much inclined to disagree with him . The book , as we have already intimated , is ...
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... whole into logical diagrams and rhetorical declamation'. Thus he says of Shakespeare's characters, in contradiction to what Pope had observed, and to what every one else feels, that each character is a species, instead of being an ...
... whole into logical diagrams and rhetorical declamation'. Thus he says of Shakespeare's characters, in contradiction to what Pope had observed, and to what every one else feels, that each character is a species, instead of being an ...
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... whole pages of Schlegel into his own preface . For Schlegel [ Footnote : Whose work , by the way , cries aloud for a new and better English translation . ] was not only a learned critic but a great one : and this mass of him - cast with ...
... whole pages of Schlegel into his own preface . For Schlegel [ Footnote : Whose work , by the way , cries aloud for a new and better English translation . ] was not only a learned critic but a great one : and this mass of him - cast with ...
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... whole series of preceding conditions. His passions do not at first stand displayed to us in all their height, as is the case with so many tragic poets, who, in the language of Lessing, are thorough masters of the legal style of love. He ...
... whole series of preceding conditions. His passions do not at first stand displayed to us in all their height, as is the case with so many tragic poets, who, in the language of Lessing, are thorough masters of the legal style of love. He ...
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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