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Critical Texts 16th Century - early 20th
Century
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Criticism
16th Century
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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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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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]
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 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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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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