1st Edition

William Shakespeare The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1693-1733

Edited By Brian Vickers Copyright 1974

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

    Introduction; Note on the Text; 29: Thomas Rymer, fromA Short View of Tragedy; 30: John Dennis on Rymer; 31. John Dryden on Rymer; 32. Charles Gildon on Rymer; 33: John Dryden on Rymer; 34: Jeremy Collier, from A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage; 35: Unsigned work, Shakespeare defended from Collier; 36: John Dennis, Shakespeare defended; 37: James Drake, Shakespeare defended; 38: Colley Cibber, from his adaptation of Richard III; 39: Samuel Cobb, Shakespeare's artless tragedies; 40: Charles Gildon, from his adaptation of Measure for Measure; 41: John Oldmixon on the mangling of Shakespeare's plays; 42: John Dennis on Shakespeare's morals; 43: George Granville, from his adaptation of The Merchant of Venice; 44: John Dennis, from his adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor; 45: George Farquhar on the Three Unities; 46: John Downes, Shakespeare on the Restoration stage; 47: Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeare's life and works; 48: Sir Richard Steele, from the Tatler; 49: Henry Felton on Shakespeare's genius; 50: Charles Gildon, Shakespeare's life and works; 51: The Earl of Shaftesbury on Shakespeare; 52: Elijah Fenton on Shakespeare; 53: Joseph Trapp, Shakespeare and English drama; 54: Sir Richard Steele on Shakespeare; 55: Joseph Addison on Shakespeare; 56: John Dennis on Shakespeare's genius and morality; 57: Leonard Welsted, Longinus illustrated from Shakespeare; 58: John Hughes on Othello; 59: Lewis Theobald on King Lear, Othello and Julius Caesar; 60: Thomas Killigrew the younger, suggestions for adapting Julius Caesar; 61: Thomas Purney, Shakespeare and francophilia; 62: Charles Gildon, Shakespeare and the Rules; 63: George Sewell on the mangling of Shakespeare's plays; 64: John Dennis, from his adaptation ofCoriolanus; 65: John Dennis, letters on Shakespeare; 66: Lewis Theobald, from his adaptation of Richard II; 67: John Dennis,Shakespeare and the Rules; 68: Charles Gildon on Shakespeare's faults; 69: Aaron Hill, from his adaptation of Henry V; 70: The Duke of Wharton, In praise of Hill's Henry V; 71: Alexander Pope, edition of Shakespeare; 72: George Sewell on Shakespeare's poems; 73: Richard Savage on The Rape of Lucrece; 74: Lewis Theobald, from Shakespeare Restored; 75: Nicholas Amhurst(?) on Cardinal Wolsey; George Adams, Shakespeare and tragedy; 77: Unsigned essay, Shakespeare and the actors defended; 78: Lewis Theobald on editing Shakespeare; 79: Thomas Cooke on the morality of Tate's King Lear; 80: William Levin on the decline in theatrical taste; 81: Lewis Theobald, ‘On the text of Shakespeare's Poems'; 82: Lewis Theobald, edition of Shakespeare; 83: William Warburton on Shakespeare

    Biography

    Brian Vickers