Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
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- First published
- 1817
- Pages
- 237
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Introduction
31:26 -
Preface
27:15 -
Cymbeline
19:01 -
Macbeth
28:03 -
Julius Caesar
15:10 -
Othello
32:07 -
Timon of Athens
10:53 -
Coriolanus
26:02 -
Troilus and Cressida
17:12 -
Antony and Cleopatra
11:23 -
Hamlet
18:42 -
The Tempest
17:25 -
The Midsummer Night's Dream
13:34 -
Romeo and Juliet
30:34 -
Lear
47:02 -
Richard II
17:39 -
Henry IV in Two Parts
27:25 -
Henry V
20:34 -
Henry VI in Three Parts
17:35 -
Richard III
16:26 -
Henry VIII
9:38 -
King John
22:05 -
Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will
14:32 -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
5:04 -
The Merchant of Venice
14:20 -
The Winter's Tale
13:04 -
All's Well That Ends Well
8:08 -
Love's Labour's Lost
7:00 -
Much Ado About Nothing
9:27 -
As You Like It
8:50 -
The Taming of the Shrew
11:28 -
Measure for Measure
10:41 -
The Merry Wives of Windsor
4:54 -
The Comedy of Errors
5:13 -
Doubtful Plays of Shakespeare
15:10 -
Poems and Sonnets
10:38
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1916) is a public domain work.
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An old king's wounded pride becomes a subject for close reading in William Hazlitt's essays on Shakespeare's characters. His discussion of Lear follows the interplay of family affection, authority and emotional collapse. The Fool's jokes deepen the sadness of Lear's situation, while Edgar's assumed madness provides a contrast with the king's distress. Quoted passages let readers see the dialogue that prompts Hazlitt's judgments, including Lear's tense exchange with Gonerill and his encounter with Kent in disguise.
The collection approaches drama through the relationship between feeling and action. Hazlitt considers how Shakespeare connects passions and shapes their effects on the mind, giving readers a way to examine how individual scenes work. An introduction by Arthur Quiller-Couch supplies an account of Hazlitt's early life, education and friendships with writers. For readers returning to Shakespeare, these essays offer an opinionated companion to the plays and a model of criticism built around particular characters and lines.
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Book facts
- Author
- William Hazlitt
- First published
- 1817
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Literature
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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- Eva Davis (d. 2025) and Nemo