Preface to Shakespeare
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Samuel Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare comes with selected notes on some of the plays, and a bracketed line says he published his annotated edition of Shakespeare's plays in 1765. The notes listed are those to Measure for Measure, Henry IV, Henry V, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello.
In the preface Johnson calls Shakespeare the poet of nature, who holds up a faithful mirror of manners and of life, and he says that in Shakespeare a character is commonly a species rather than an individual. Another passage discusses earlier editors, among them Pope and Theobald. A later passage mentions a tradition, reported by Mr. Dryden, about Mercutio.
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- Author
- Samuel Johnson
- Reading time
- About 100 minutes
- Pages
- 58
- Language
- English
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- Classics
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