Shakespeare

8 books

Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalJameson · 1832A work of literary criticism by Mrs. Jameson, first published in 1832, analyzing the female characters in Shakespeare's plays. It groups heroines such as Portia, Ophelia, Cleopatra, and Lady Macbeth into moral, poetical, affectionate, and historical categories to illustrate varieties of female character.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith · 1903A 1903 edited collection of nine eighteenth-century essays and prefaces on Shakespeare by critics and editors including Rowe, Pope, Johnson, and Morgann, with an introduction tracing the development of Shakespeare's reputation and criticism during that century.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Is Shakespeare Dead? From My AutobiographyMark Twain · 1909A humorous 1909 essay by Mark Twain, framed as a chapter of his autobiography, examining the Shakespeare authorship question and arguing skeptically that William Shakespeare may not have written the works attributed to him.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Preface to ShakespeareSamuel Johnson · 1765A 1765 critical essay by Samuel Johnson, written as the preface to his annotated edition of Shakespeare's plays. Johnson examines the sources of Shakespeare's lasting fame and defends him against critics who judge by classical rules, and the volume includes selected notes on plays such as Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and FletcherSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1836This is a collection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notes and lectures on drama, first published in 1836. It examines Shakespeare's plays, with additional notes on Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher, and includes introductory discussion of poetry, the drama, and public taste.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethA. C. Bradley · 1904A collection of critical lectures, first published in 1904, examining the substance, structure, and characters of Shakespeare's four major tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, with scholarly notes on textual and interpretive questions.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the DefendantFrancis Asbury Smith · 1907A 1907 work of literary criticism that, in the form of a courtroom defense, surveys and rebuts three centuries of adverse criticism of Shakespeare's plays, from Ben Jonson and Voltaire to modern detractors.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on ShakespeareLeo Tolstoy · 1906A 1906 collection containing Tolstoy's critical essay arguing against Shakespeare's reputation as a great genius, focusing on King Lear, with an appendix including Ernest Crosby's essay on Shakespeare's attitude toward the working classes and a letter from Bernard Shaw.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية