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Title: Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare
Author: D. Nichol Smith
Release Date: October 10, 2009 [Ebook 30227]
Language: English

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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS ON
SHAKESPEARE***

Eighteenth Century
Essays on Shakespeare
Edited by

D. Nichol Smith, M.A.
Glasgow
James MacLehose and Sons
Publishers to the University
1903

Contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Introduction. Shakespearian Criticism in the Eighteenth
Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Nicholas Rowe: Some Account of the Life &c. of Mr.
William Shakespear. 1709. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
John Dennis: On the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare.
1711. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alexander Pope: Preface to Edition of Shakespeare. 1725. .
Lewis Theobald: Preface to Edition of Shakespeare. 1733.
Sir Thomas Hanmer: Preface to Edition of Shakespeare.
1744. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
William Warburton: Preface to Edition of Shakespeare.
1747. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Samuel Johnson: Preface to Edition of Shakespeare. 1765.
Richard Farmer: An Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare:
Addressed to Joseph Cradock, Esq. 1767. . . . . . . .
Maurice Morgann: An Essay on the Dramatic Character
of Sir John Falstaff. 1777. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Nicholas Rowe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
John Dennis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alexander Pope. . ....