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Informationen zum Autor William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social critic, and philosopher. He was born on April 10, 1778, and died on September 18, 1830. He is now thought to be up there with Samuel Johnson and George Orwell as one of the best critics and essayists in the history of the English language. People agree that he was also the best art critic of his time. Hazlitt went to school and learned things at home. At the age of 13, he was happy to see his writing in print for the first time. In July 1791, the Shrewsbury Chronicle printed a letter he wrote about the riots in Birmingham over Joseph Priestley's support for the French Revolution. During his life, he became friends with Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, all of whom are now considered important 19th-century writers. Klappentext An edition of Hazlitt's critical study with notes. Zusammenfassung Hazlitt's lively! opinionated and! in his own time! highly controversial essays on each of Shakespeare's plays are reprinted here with notes. His first full-length work of literary criticism! the book was first published in 1817. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Preface; 1. Cymbeline; 2. Macbeth; 3. Julius Caesar; 4. Othello; 5. Timon of Athens; 6. Coriolanus; 7. Troilus and Cressida; 8. Antony and Cleopatra; 9. Hamlet; 10. The Tempest; 11. A Midsummer Night's Dream; 12. Romeo and Juliet; 13. King Lear; 14. Richard II; 15. Henry IV; 16. Henry V; 17. Henry VI; 18. Richard III; 19. Henry VIII; 20. King John; 21. Twelfth Night; or, what you will; 22. The Two Gentlemen of Verona; 23. The Merchant of Venice; 24. The Winter's Tale; 25. All's Well That Ends Well; 26. Love's Labour's Lost; 27. Much Ado About Nothing; 28. As You Like It; 29. The Taming of the Shrew; 30. Measure for Measure; 31. The Merry Wives of Windsor; 32. The Comedy of Errors; 33. Doubtful plays of Shakespeare; 34. Poems and Sonnets....
