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The Works collects Samuel Johnson's writings assembled in a twelve-volume edition. This volume presents Johnson's varied prose and criticism: rigorous essays on drama and poetry, including a Dissertation on the Greek Comedy, where Johnson surveys the origins and development of ancient theater, discusses Aristophanes, Menander, and the Greek and Roman transmission of drama; critical notes on Macbeth with Johnsonian apparatus; and a selection of his periodical discourse from The Adventurer, wherein he anatomizes authors, tastes, and literary culture of the eighteenth century. The volume also includes Johnson's famous philosophical fiction, Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, with its extended meditation on happiness, virtue, and the relative goods of life. Together these works illustrate Johnson's towering erudition, moral seriousness, and ironic wit, and provide a revealing portrait of eighteenth-century letters—their classical models, their debates about tragedy and comedy, and their fascination with human nature. The edition is essential for students of Johnson, Shakespearean criticism, and Georgian-era prose.
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