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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt
J. H. Lobban
July 2009
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9781108005296

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    The critic, essayist and painter William Hazlitt (1778–1830) published and lectured widely on English literature, from Elizabethan drama to reviews of the latest work of his own time. His first extended work of literary criticism was Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, published in 1817. This volume from 1908 takes the text of the first edition and adds notes explaining complex terms to readers and an introduction by J. H. Lobban, a lecturer in English at Birkbeck College. As such it is the ideal introduction to Hazlitt's criticism. Hazlitt's political view of Shakespeare drew the ire of the Tory Quarterly review, whose hostile review destroyed sales of the second edition. The work remains of value, however, both as a contribution to the study of Shakespeare and, as with all of Hazlitt's prose, as a model of an elegant, persuasive essay.

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    July 2009
    Paperback
    9781108005296
    312 pages
    216 × 140 × 18 mm
    0.4kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Preface
    • 1. Cymbeline
    • 2. Macbeth
    • 3. Julius Caesar
    • 4. Othello
    • 5. Timon of Athens
    • 6. Coriolanus
    • 7. Troilus and Cressida
    • 8. Antony and Cleopatra
    • 9. Hamlet
    • 10. The Tempest
    • 11. A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • 12. Romeo and Juliet
    • 13. King Lear
    • 14. Richard II
    • 15. Henry IV
    • 16. Henry V
    • 17. Henry VI
    • 18. Richard III
    • 19. Henry VIII
    • 20. King John
    • 21. Twelfth Night
    • or, what you will
    • 22. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • 23. The Merchant of Venice
    • 24. The Winter's Tale
    • 25. All's Well That Ends Well
    • 26. Love's Labour's Lost
    • 27. Much Ado About Nothing
    • 28. As You Like It
    • 29. The Taming of the Shrew
    • 30. Measure for Measure
    • 31. The Merry Wives of Windsor
    • 32. The Comedy of Errors
    • 33. Doubtful plays of Shakespeare
    • 34. Poems and Sonnets.
    • William Hazlitt
    • Editor
    • J. H. Lobban