William Shakespeare (Bloom's Classic Critical Views)

✍ Scribed by Harold Bloom, Neil Heims

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 560
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

William Shakespeare is possibly the most revered writer of the English language. This volume offers critical essays examining the human drama in Shakespeare's work, studying his plays, and more. Also included is an informative biography of the Bard, a complete bibliography of his work, and a list of critical work about the writer. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. The lives of the greatest writers of the world are explored in the new series Bloom’s BioCritiques. In addition to a lengthy biography, each book includes an extensive critical analysis of the writer’s work, as well as critical views by important literary critics throughout history. These volumes are the perfect introduction to critical study of the important authors currently read and discussed in high schools, colleges, and graduate schools.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Series Introduction......Page 10
Introduction by Harold Bloom......Page 12
Biography......Page 20
Personal......Page 26
Robert Greene (1592)......Page 28
John Davies (ca. 1611)......Page 29
William Basse Fon Mr. Wm. Shakespearefl 1622)......Page 30
Ben Jonson Fto The Readerfl 1623)......Page 31
John Ward (1648–79)......Page 32
Thomas Fuller (1662)......Page 33
John Aubrey (1669–96)......Page 34
Nicholas Rowe Fsome Account Of The Life, &c. Of Mr. William Shakespearfl 1709)......Page 35
Washington Irving Fstratford-on-avonfl 1819–20)......Page 43
Walter Bagehot Fshakespeare— The Individualfl 1853)......Page 46
Nathaniel Hawthorne Frecollections Of A Gifted Womanfl 1863)......Page 59
John Richard Green Fthe England Of Shaksperefl 1874)......Page 65
A. C. Bradley Fshakespeare The Manfl 1904)......Page 74
General......Page 108
Francis Meres (1598)......Page 110
Leonard Digges Fto The Memorie Of The Deceased Author Maister W. Shakespearefl 1623)......Page 111
John Heminge And Henry Condell Fto The Great Variety Of Readersfl 1623)......Page 112
Ben Jonson Fto The Memory Of My Beloued, The Author Mr. William Shakespearefl 1623)......Page 114
Michael Drayton Fto My Most DearelyLoved Friend Henery Reynolds, Esquire, Of Poets And Poesiefl 1627)......Page 117
Leonard Digges Fupon Master William Shakespeare, The Deceased Authour, And His Poemsfl 1640)......Page 118
Ben Jonson (1641)......Page 120
Margaret Cavendish Fletter 123fl 1664)......Page 121
Richard Flecknoe Fa Short Discourse Of The English Stagefl 1664)......Page 122
John Dryden (1668)......Page 123
John Dryden Fdefense Of The Epiloguefl 1672)......Page 124
John Dryden Fprefacefl 1679)......Page 125
Nahum Tate Fprefacefl 1680)......Page 127
Nicholas Rowe (1714)......Page 129
Thomas Purney Fprefacefl 1717)......Page 136
William Collins Fan Epistle Addrest To Sir Thomas Hanmer On His Edition Of Shakespear’s Worksfl 1744)......Page 139
Edward Young (1759)......Page 142
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1763)......Page 144
Samuel Johnson (1765)......Page 145
Elizabeth Montague Fon The Preternatural Beingsfl 1769)......Page 161
Edward Taylor Fon Shakespearfl 1774)......Page 163
Hugh Blair (1783)......Page 168
Richard Cumberland (1786)......Page 169
Charles Dibdin Fshakespearfl 1795)......Page 179
William Godwin Fof English Stylefl 1797)......Page 185
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel Flecture Xxiiifl 1809)......Page 188
Walter Scott Fan Essay On The Dramafl 1814)......Page 206
Royall Tyler (ca. 1815)......Page 208
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818)......Page 210
William Hazlitt Fshakespeare And Miltonfl 1818)......Page 217
Thomas Campbell (1819)......Page 223
Johann Peter Eckermann (1836)......Page 224
Thomas De Quincey Fshakespearefl 1838)......Page 225
Thomas Carlyle Fthe Hero As Poetfl 1841)......Page 231
Thomas Babington Macaulay Fmadame D’arblayfl 1843)......Page 237
Leigh Hunt Fshakspearefl 1845)......Page 238
H. N. Hudson (1848)......Page 239
Ralph Waldo Emerson Fshakspeare; Or, The Poetfl 1850)......Page 246
James Russell Lowell Fshakespeare Once Morefl 1868)......Page 250
Edwin P. Whipple Fshakespeare: Ifl 1869)......Page 258
William Cullen Bryant Fshakespearefl 1870)......Page 262
Victor Hugo (1864)......Page 263
Karl Elze Fshakespeare’s Character And Conception Of Human Naturefl 1876)......Page 269
Havelock Ellis Fwilliam Shakespearefl 1878)......Page 273
John Addington Symonds Fintroductoryfl 1884)......Page 275
Walt Whitman Fa Thought On Shaksperefl 1886)......Page 277
W. E. Henley Fshakespearefl 1890)......Page 278
William Dean Howells Fshakespearefl 1891)......Page 279
Edmond Scherer Fshakespearefl 1891)......Page 281
Hallam Tennyson (1897)......Page 283
George Bernard Shaw Fbetter Than Shakespear?fl 1897)......Page 286
George Saintsbury Fshakespearefl 1898)......Page 289
George Santayana Fthe Absence Of Religion In Shakespearefl 1900)......Page 299
William Butler Yeats Fat Stratford-on-avonfl 1901)......Page 306
Ambrose Bierce Fthe Ravages Of Shakspearitisfl 1903)......Page 310
Lytton Strachey Fshakespeare’s Final Periodfl 1904)......Page 311
Leo Tolstoy (1906)......Page 322
George Edward Woodberry Fshaksperefl 1907)......Page 328
J. J. Jusserand Fwhat To Expect Of Shakespearefl 1911)......Page 334
Textual History......Page 342
Alexander Pope Fthe Preface Of The Editorfl 1725)......Page 344
Lewis Theobald Fintroductionfl 1726)......Page 349
Henry Fielding (1752)......Page 353
Samuel Johnson (1756)......Page 357
James Russell Lowell Fshakespeare Once Morefl 1868)......Page 362
Thomas Spencer Baynes Fnew Shakespearian Interpretationsfl 1872)......Page 365
C. M. Ingleby Fthe Still Lion Discoveredfl 1875)......Page 376
Edmund Gosse Fthe Age Of Elizabethfl 1897)......Page 380
Sources......Page 384
John Dennis (1712)......Page 386
Lewis Theobald Fprefacefl 1734)......Page 395
Peter Whalley (1748)......Page 398
J. Payne Collier Fon The Six Old Plays To Which Shakespeare Was, Or Is Supposed To Have Been, Indebtedfl 1831)......Page 405
Paul Stapfer Fshakespeare’s Classical Knowledgefl 1880)......Page 419
Authorship Controversy......Page 448
Delia Bacon Fwilliam Shakespeare And His Plays: An Inquiry Concerning Themfl 1856)......Page 450
Nathaniel Hawthorne Frecollections Of A Gifted Womanfl 1863)......Page 474
Nathaniel Holmes Fphilosopher And Poetfl 1866)......Page 482
James Spedding Fon The Authorship Of The Plays Attributed To Shakespearefl 1867)......Page 490
James Freeman Clarke Fdid Shakespeare Write Bacon’s Works?fl 1881)......Page 495
Ignatius Donnelly Fa Word Personalfl 1888)......Page 507
G. K. Chesterton Fsensationalism And A Cipherfl 1902)......Page 511
Mark Twain Fis Shakespeare Dead?fl 1909)......Page 517
Chronology......Page 550
Index......Page 552