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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

by William Hazlitt

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  1. Introduction

    31:26

  2. Preface

    27:15

  3. Cymbeline

    19:01

  4. Macbeth

    28:03

  5. Julius Caesar

    15:10

  6. Othello

    32:07

  7. Timon of Athens

    10:53

  8. Coriolanus

    26:02

  9. Troilus and Cressida

    17:12

  10. Antony and Cleopatra

    11:23

  11. Hamlet

    18:42

  12. The Tempest

    17:25

  13. The Midsummer Night's Dream

    13:34

  14. Romeo and Juliet

    30:34

  15. Lear

    47:02

  16. Richard II

    17:39

  17. Henry IV in Two Parts

    27:25

  18. Henry V

    20:34

  19. Henry VI in Three Parts

    17:35

  20. Richard III

    16:26

  21. Henry VIII

    9:38

  22. King John

    22:05

  23. Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

    14:32

  24. The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    5:04

  25. The Merchant of Venice

    14:20

  26. The Winter's Tale

    13:04

  27. All's Well That Ends Well

    8:08

  28. Love's Labour's Lost

    7:00

  29. Much Ado About Nothing

    9:27

  30. As You Like It

    8:50

  31. The Taming of the Shrew

    11:28

  32. Measure for Measure

    10:41

  33. The Merry Wives of Windsor

    4:54

  34. The Comedy of Errors

    5:13

  35. Doubtful Plays of Shakespeare

    15:10

  36. Poems and Sonnets

    10:38

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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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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was an English essayist, literary and drama critic, and sometime painter, widely regarded as one of the greatest prose stylists in the language. A committed radical, he wrote with unmatched directness on art, literature, politics, and the workings of the mind.

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Reading time
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Pages
237
Language
English
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Eva Davis (d. 2025) and Nemo