Books with title Characters of Shakespeare's plays

William Hazlitt was an English writer known for his humorous essays and literary criticisms. He is best known for his writings on Shakespeare's plays and characters. Hazlitt has a remarkable gift of writing about Shakespeare and his characters in a way that honors Shakespeare. He recognizes his genius and is ale to discuss his characters in an honest manner. The Table of Contents includes Cymbeline, Macbeth, Caesar, Othello, Timon of Athens, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, The Tempest, The Midsummer night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Lear, Richard II, Henry IV in Two Parts, Henry V and Henry VI in Three Parts, Richard III, Henry VIII, King John, Twelfth Night or What You Will, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale, All's Well that End Well, Love's Labours Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, Doubtful Plays of Shakespeare, and Poems and Sonnets.

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Book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt. Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by Dr. Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's plays to follow the manner of German critic A. W. Schlegel and with the work of Coleridge, paved the way for the increased appreciation of Shakespeare's genius that was characteristic of later nineteenth century criticism.

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt. CYMBELINE is one of the most delightful of Shakespeare's historical plays. It may be considered as a dramatic romance, in which the most striking parts of the story are thrown into the form of a dialogue, and the intermediate circumstances are explained by the different speakers, as occasion renders it necessary. The action is less concentrated in consequence; but the interest becomes more aerial and refined from the principle of perspective introduced into the subject by the imaginary changes of scene as well as by the length of time it occupies. The reading of this play is like going [on?] a journey with some uncertain object at the end of it, and in which the suspense is kept up and heightened by the long intervals between each action. Though the events are scattered over such an extent of surface, and relate to such a variety of characters, yet the links which bind the different interests of the story together are never entirely broken. An early book of 19th century, yet tops our present literature books

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