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Johnson's Shakespeare

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

AvG. F. Parker,Cambridge) Parker, G. F. (Fellow in English, Fellow in English, Clare College

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This study concerns itself with Shakespeare no less than with Johnson. For Johnson;s account of `the poet of nature' is here maintained to be no dead commonplace but a radically challenging proposition; its cutting edge is brought out by a series of contrasts with the leading Romantic critics - Coleridge, Schlegel, and Hazlitt - and the dichotomies which emerge are found to reflect tensions exhibited by or explored within the plays themselves. The need for unexpectedly fundamental choices in our own reading of Shakespeare is implied. The author relates Johnson's feeling for general nature to the scepticism characteristic of his thought, and concludes with a fresh and provocative discussion of Johnson's response to the `unnatural deeds of Shakespearean tragedy.The Central section of the Preface to Shakespeare is reprinted here, as are many of the most critically interesting notes, so that this book offers a virtual anthology of Johnson's Shakespeare criticism as well as a commentary upon it. evaluation of Shakespeare as `the poet of nature' was no mere commonplace but a radically challenging proposition. In this study his ideas are contrasted with the leading Romantic critics Coleridge, Hazlitt, and A. W. Schlegel. A large part of his Preface to Shakespeare is reprinted as are many of the most critically interesting notes, providing a virtual anthology of Johnson's Shakespeare criticism.

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Utgivningsdatum1991-08-15
Mått136 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt311 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieClarendon Paperbacks
Antal sidor226
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198112716

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`not only has Parker written an excellent piece of critical history but also, by design, he has provided an aid to "taking Johnson seriously" as someone with something important to say to us now. As never before, Parker makes Johnson's views on Shakespeare available, in tone as well as content, by relating them to other criticism of its time including his own, testing them against Shakespeare's plays, and contrasting them with the Romantic criticism that followed.' Robert Hapgood, Times Literary Supplement

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