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Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

by Samuel Johnson

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    Characters of Shakespeare’s plays by William Hazlitt (Anonymous user)
    Anonymous user: Hazlitt's preface contains one of the most devastating attacks on Johnson; his whole book, as readily admitted by the author, was partly written as a response to the Johnsonian type of Shakespearean criticism. Hazlitt's impassioned Bardolatry and Johnson's cooler, more down-to-earth approach make for a fascinating contrast, a fine illustration of the gulf between the nineteenth-century Romantics and the "Age of Reason".… (more)
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