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Challenging the long-held view that Johnson's criticism of Shakespeare is of historical interest only, having been assimilated and superseded by later work, this study argues that Johnson's interpretaion of Shakespeare as "the poet of nature" is actually a radical and provocative proposition. Parker provides an illuminating series of contrasts of the leading Romantic critics--Coleridge, Schlegel, and Hazlitt--arguing that the dichotomies that emerge from their writings reflect tensions exhibited by or explored within the plays themselves. He relates Johnson's feeling for general nature to the characteristic scepticism of his thought, and concludes with a fresh discussion of Johnson's response to the "unnatural deeds" of Shakespearean tragedy. Parker also includes the central portion of the Preface to Shakespeare, as well as critically interesting notes, offering a fully developed anthology of Johnson's criticism and commentary on Shakespeare.
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"A most useful snythesizing study of some of the major problems concerning the understanding of Johnson's critical assessment of Shakespeare....Highly recommended for anyone interested in 18th-century literature and literary criticism."--Choice
"...the book's working thesis, that we must bypass the Romantics to see Johnson clear and whole, is surely correct and rejuvenating."--The Eighteenth Century
G. F. Parker is at Clare College, Cambridge.
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"A most useful snythesizing study of some of the major problems concerning the understanding of Johnson's critical assessment of Shakespeare....Highly recommended for anyone interested in 18th-century literature and literary criticism."--Choice
"...the book's working thesis, that we must bypass the Romantics to see Johnson clear and whole, is surely correct and rejuvenating."--The Eighteenth Century
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0198129742
- ISBN 13 9780198129745
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
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