Question: What year did the author, who published a criticism of Shakespeare's plays in 1817, die?
Sentence (from "Characters of Shakespear's Plays"): Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by Samuel Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's plays to follow the manner of German critic August Wilhelm Schlegel, and, with the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, paved the way for the increased appreciation of Shakespeare's genius that was characteristic of later nineteenth-century criticism.
Relevant evidence: No