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Excerpt from Shakespeare
The latter point deserves some further comment. The course Of Shakespeare criticism, which began in anything like a formal way with the age of Dryden, may be roughly divided into three periods. In the late seventeenth and the eighteenth century Shakespeare's work was greatly admired, but it was observed to violate the rules of dram atic composition which prevailed in the neo-classical era.
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