Download or read book Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Johnson on Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare written by Edward Tomarken and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first appearance of Samuel Johnson's edition of Shakespeare's drama in 1765, its Preface has often been published separately, while the Notes have been treated as miscellaneous and fragmentary. As a result, few modern readers realize that the Notes in fact contain coherent interpretations of most of the plays and that many portions of the Preface are generalizations related to those readings. Scholars who have examined the Notes carefully have almost always used them in studies of larger issues, such as Johnson's morality or rhetoric. In this book, Edward Tomarken provides the first full-length study of the Notes to Shakespeare, showing how they raise issues of direct concern to modern critics and theoreticians. While referring to Johnson's notes on all the Shakespearean dramas, Tomarken focuses on eight plays--Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Macbeth--to demonstrate the range of Johnson's editorial and critical abilities. Each chapter, devoted to a single play, moves from the particular to the general-from specific remarks about the play in the Notes, to related theoretical statements in the Preface, and finally to an axiom of literary theory. Ranging from a formulation concerning ideology in criticism to a reconsideration of aesthetic empathy, these axioms are, Tomarken contends, essential to literary criticism as a discipline and manifest Johnson's relevance to modern criticism. The conception of criticism that emerges in this book goes well beyond the theoretical premises of the eighteenth century. Tomarken submits that the ethical dimension of criticism-the moral aspect so fundamental to Johnson but so foreign to modern critics-can point to a way of mediating between the ideological differences that have become so divisive in modern criticism and theory.

Download or read book Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preface written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Johnson s Preface to Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Johnson on Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1985 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Samuel Johnson Lives of the poets written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Johnson s Shakespeare written by Graham Frederick Parker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Preface to Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Preface to Shakespeare" by Samuel Johnson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Dr Johnson s Critical Vocabulary written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Samuel Johnson s Dictionary written by Samuel Johnson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shakespeare written by Boris Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Who s Who in Shakespeare written by Hamish Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays. It provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * analyses of the role and significance of each minor figure * a reliable guide to the huge Shakespearian canon for student and teacher * quotations from famous critics * useful information on some of Shakespeare's sources. From Antonio to Yorick, Macbeth to Mercutio, this book embraces the breadth and depth of the world's most important playwright.