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... Shakespeare , we find it entirely free of any of the personal deflections that occur in his comments on Milton . He would obviously have no quarrel with Shakespeare's social and political views , in so far as these are overt in the ...
... Shakespeare , we find it entirely free of any of the personal deflections that occur in his comments on Milton . He would obviously have no quarrel with Shakespeare's social and political views , in so far as these are overt in the ...
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... Shakespeare . In 1737 , when Johnson first arrived in London as a needy literary adventurer , he had in his pocket the manuscript of his tragedy , Irene , a solid but unwieldy play which did not much attract actors and managers and was ...
... Shakespeare . In 1737 , when Johnson first arrived in London as a needy literary adventurer , he had in his pocket the manuscript of his tragedy , Irene , a solid but unwieldy play which did not much attract actors and managers and was ...
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... Shakespeare's associative imagination . ' Thinking of his own works his mind passed naturally to the Binder . ' In that brief sentence Johnson shows that he understood perfectly well the essentially Lockean position of a later critic ...
... Shakespeare's associative imagination . ' Thinking of his own works his mind passed naturally to the Binder . ' In that brief sentence Johnson shows that he understood perfectly well the essentially Lockean position of a later critic ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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