Shakespeare criticism
Subtitle: a selection
By: with an introduction by D. Nichol Smith
Series: The World's classics -- v 212
Publisher: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press
Published: 1946
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Appreciation
Notes: "From John Heminge and Henry Condell to Thomas Carlyle (1623-1840)"--Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the first collection of Shakespeare's Plays, 1623 / John Heminge [and] Henry Condell; title: To the memory of my beloved, the author, 1623 / Ben Jonson; title: De Shakespeare nostrati, 1641 / Ben Jonson; title: On Shakespear, 1630 / John Milton; title: On worthy Master Shakespeare and his poems, 1632 / I.M.S.; title: William Shakespeare / Thomas Fuller; title: Letter CXXIII, 1664 / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle; title: From 'Of Dramatick Poesie', 1668 / John Dryden; title: From various prefaces and prologues / John Dryden; title: From 'Theatrum poetarum', 1675 / Edward Phillips; title: From 'Some account of the life of Mr. William Shakespear', 1709 / Nicholas Rowe; title: From 'The spectator', 1711-14 / Joseph Addison [and] Richard Steele; title: From the preface to Shakespear's works, 1725 / Alexander Pope; title: From the epistle 'To Augustus', 1737 / Alexander Pope; title: From a letter to Richard West, 1742 / Thomas Gray; title: From 'The progress of poesy', 1757 / Thomas Gray; title: From 'The adventurer', 1753-54 / Joseph Warton; title: From 'Elements of criticism', 1762 / Henry Home, Lord Kames; title: From 'Dialogues of the dead', 1765 / George, Lord Lyttelton; title: From the 'Prologue at the opening of Drury-Lane Theatre', 1747 / Samuel Johnson; title: From the dedication to 'Shakespear Illustrated', 1753 / Samuel Johnson; title: From the edition of Shakespeare's works, 1765 / Samuel Johnson; title: From 'Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare', 1785 / Thomas Whately; title: From the introduction to 'A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters', 1774 / William Richardson; title: From 'An essay on the dramatic character of Sir John Falstaff', 1777 / Maurice Morgann; title: 'On the tragedies of Shakspeare', 1811 / Charles Lamb; title: From 'Biographia literaria', 1817 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: From the 'Lectures' / Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: From 'Table-talk' / Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: From 'Characters of Shakespear's plays', 1817 / William Hazlitt; title: From 'Lectures on the English poets', 1818 / William Hazlitt; title: From 'Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth / William Hazlitt; title: From review of Hazlitt's 'Characters of Shakespear's plays', 1817 / Francis Jeffrey; title: On the knocking at the gate in 'Macbeth', 1823 / Thomas De Quincey; title: From the article on Shakespeare in the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica (7th edition)', 1838 / Thomas De Quincey; title: From 'Imaginary Conversations', 1846 / Walter Savage Landor; title: The hero as poet, 1840 / Thomas Carlyle.