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A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare Being the Text of the First (1794) Edition Revised by the Author and Never Previously Published
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
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If it is not generally known that the foundations of twentieth-century criticism of Shakespeare’s imagery were laid over one hundred and fifty years ago, the explanation lies in the limited availability of the single original edition of Walter Whiter’s Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare published in 1794. In an age in which the study of Shakespeare’s characters was of prime interest and... Read more
List of Illustrations. Editor’s Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction: Whiter and His Background; Contemporary Criticism of Whiter’s Work; The Specimen and Later Shakespeare Criticism; The Present Edition and the Whiter MSS. A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare 1. Notes on As You Like It 2. An Attempt to Explain and Illustrate Various Passages of Shakespeare on a New Principle of Criticism, Derived from Mr Locke’s Doctrine of the Association of Ideas, 1794. Appendices: (a) Short Essays on Miscellaneous Topics (b) Other Examples of Whiter’s Notes on Shakespeare’s Association of Ideas. Selected Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Walter Whiter
Alan Over & Mary Bell (Eds)
