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Criticism
Critical Texts 16th Century - early 20th Century

 

16th century - 17th century - 18th century - 19th century - early 20th century


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Criticism
16th Century

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Ascham, Roger.
The Scholemaster, 1570 [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ascham1.htm]

Carew, Richard.
The Excellency of the English Tongue, 1595-6 [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/criticism/engli_il.html]

Gascoigne, George.
Certayne Notes of Instruction, 1575, in complete works: [http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/]

Harrison, William.
Harrison's Description of England in Shakespeare's Youth (1575) ed. Furnivall, Frederick (1877). [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://leehrsn.50megs.com/index.html] (May 2002)

Lodge, Thomas. A Defense of Poetry, 1579:
Thomas Lodge page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/lodge.htm]

Meres, Francis. Palladis Tamia, 1598;
Comments on Shakespeare in Palladis Tamia [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/meres.htm]

Nashe, Thomas.
works [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/nashebib.htm]
Nashe, Thomas.
Anatomie of Absurdity, 1589 [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/anatomie.htm]

Puttenham, George,
The Arte of English Poesie, 1589 [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/criticism/artofp.html]

Sidney, Sir Philip
An Apologie for Poetrie, 1583/95 permission needed: [http://www-vms.uoregon.edu/~rbear/defence.html]
Sidney page [http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/sidney.htm]

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Criticism
17th Century

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Bacon, Francis. Essays (1601) [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/bacon.html]

Cavendish, Margaret. Essay on Shakespeare (1664)

Daniel, Samuel.
A Defence of Rhyme, ?1603 [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ryme.html]

Dryden, John.
Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668) [http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet-abridged.html] (abridged)
full text, ed. Ian Lancashire [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/criticism/of_dr_il.html]
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Criticism
18th Century

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Eighteenth Century e-texts, coll. Jack Lynch [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html]

Criticism, till 1860:
Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 547-563 [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-gencomms.html]

Bräker, Ulrich.
Lebensgeschichte und Natürliche Ebentheuer des Armen Mannes im Tockenburg [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/braeker/tocken/tocken.htm] (May 2002)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang.
Zum Schäkspears Tag (this site)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
Shakespeare und kein Ende (this site)

Ireland, William Henry (177-1835). "
An Authentic Account of the Shakespearian Manuscripts". ed. Jack Lynch. [http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/ireland.html] (Nov. 2001)

Montagu, Elisabeth.
Introduction to An Essay on . . . Shakespear (1769) ed. Jack Lynch[http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/montagu.html]

Rowe, Nicholas.
The Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709) [http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/rowe.htm] (Sept. 2002)


Johnson, Samuel
Mr. Johnson's Preface to his Edition of Shakespear's Plays. (1765) [http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/displayprose.cfm?prosenum=9]
Johnson, Samuel.
Annotations on Hamlet (1765) [http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/hamlet.html]
On Johnson's edition (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, 1907 - 21) [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1115.html]
Johnson, Samuel. Notes on Hamlet III.2 / Notes on Lear
Johnson, Samuel. Johnson On Shakespeare (London : Oxford University Press, 1929), pp. 189-196. Transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque. [http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-joh.htm]
Johnson, Samuel.
Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane. [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/johnson1b.html]
Samuel Johnson page [http://www.samueljohnson.com/]
in Italian:
Shakespeare, vostro contemporaneo [http://www.liberallibri.it/libri/058shakespeare.html]

Theobald, Lewis. Shakespeare restored (1726) Furness library [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/]

Tyrwhitt, Thomas. Observations and Conjectures (1766)

Voltaire and Shakespeare
Brutus, tragédie en cinq actes. - 1730 ; Discours sur la tragédie, à mylord Bolingbroke. - 1730 (Théâtre I (1719-1732) Tome II)
1731 facsimile edition in French /Amsterdam : J. Ledet et J. Desbordes, 1731) [http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?E=0&O=N071521]
Jules César, tragédie en trois actes de Shakespeare, traduite par Voltaire. Théâtre VI (1769-1778) Tome VII [
http://gallica.bnf.fr/]
Dissertation sur la tragédie ancienne et moderne, à S.Em. Mgr le cardinal Quirini, noble vénitien, évêque de Brescia, bibliothécaire du Vatican - 1748
Discours sur la tragédie, (1748) small extract (in English) in:
Extracts from Earlier Critics. [http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/earlycrit.html] (Jan. 2002)

On
William Warburton (1747) or here [http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/warburton.htm]
Warburton used Pope's edition, see:
Warburton's ignorance of the old text [http://www.bartleby.com/215/1114.html]

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Criticism
19th Century

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Chateaubriand, François-René de. Mélanges littéraires:
texte integrale: [http://www.laboursedulivre.com/Textes/Chateaubriand_4.html] (Jan. 2002)

Coleridge, S. T. "Hamlet" -
Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets (London : George Bell and Sons, 1904), pp. 342-368. [http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-col.htm]

Coleridge, S. T.
'Table Talk' on Hamlet [http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham2-col.htm]

Cowden Clarke, Mary.
fictional Girlhood of Ophelia [http://shakespearean.org.uk/oph1-cla.htm]

Faucit, Helena (Lady Martin) "Ophelia": On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters (Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1899), pp. 3-21. Sixth Edition. [http://shakespearean.org.uk/oph1-fau.htm]

Furnivall, Frederick (1877).
Harrison's Description of England in Shakespeare's Youth (1575) [http://leehrsn.50megs.com/index.html] (Nov. 2001)

Hazlitt, William.
Essays [http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHaz.htm], On Genius and Common Sense [http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Genius.htm]

Hazlitt, William.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays. Source Text : London: C. H. Reynell, 1817 [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/hazlittw_charsp/charsp_titlepage.html] (May 2003)

Jameson, Anna. Shakspeare's Heroines : Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical and Historical (London : George Bell and Sons, 1891), on Ophelia: pp. 153-170. Transcribed and edited by Thomas Larque. [http://shakespearean.org.uk/oph1-jam.htm]

Criticism, till 1860: Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 547-563 [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-gencomms.html]
Criticism, till 1900:
Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 564-577. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-gencomms2.html]

Nutt, Alfred,
The Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare (1900) [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.belinus.co.uk/folklore/Fairymythologyshakespeare.htm] May 2002)

Ritson, Joseph.
A Dissertation on Fairies. (1831) [http://www.netowne.com/strange/fairies/dis-fairies.htm] (May 2003)

Warner, Charles Dudley (1829-1900).
The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote. Gutenberg Project. [http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABK2934-0044-6] (April 2002)

De Quincey, Thomas. "
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth", The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, 10, pp. 389-394. Ed. David Masson. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1890. [http://www.clicknotes.com/macbeth/Knock.html]

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Criticism
Early 20th Century

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Bradley, A.C., Shakespearean Tragedy, 1905. on-line edition with notes. (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth) [http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley/] (May 2002)
Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy (1904),
on Othello [http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/shakespeare/othello_b.htm]

Elliot, T. S. :
"Hamlet and His Problems." in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. (London: Methuen, 1921). p. 95-103. [http://www.clicknotes.com/hamlet/Eliot/welcome.html]
or:
Hamlet and his Problems (1922), [http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html]

Freud, Sigmund. "
Freud on Macbeth." An excerpt from Some Character-types Met With In Psycho-analytical Work (1916) [http://sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~yisheng/notes/shakespeare/mbeth_f.htm]

James Joyce's Life of Shakespeare ann. by John Barger [http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/shakespeare.html] (Jan. 2002)

Leavis, F.R. on Shelley (Cenci) and Shakespeare (Measure f. M.), ed. Seamus Cooney. [http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/440/cenci.html] (May 2002)


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