Characters of Shakespeare's Plays - Softcover

Hazlitt, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500816493 ISBN 13: 9781500816490

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt. Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by Dr. Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's plays to follow the manner of German critic A. W. Schlegel

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Book Description

Hazlitt's lively, opinionated and, in his own time, highly controversial essays on each of Shakespeare's plays are reprinted here with notes. His first full-length work of literary criticism, the book was first published in 1817.

About the Author

William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as an art critic, drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He was also a painter. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500816493
• ISBN 13: 9781500816490
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 242