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Famous Criticisms That Have Stood

 the Test of Time

 The Writings of Critic William Hazlitt* (Click the asterich if you wish to go to a version of the entire book. Chapters are listed for our class immediately below this line.)

 Hazlitt:       Much Ado About Nothing

 Hazlitt:        Hamlet

 Hazlitt:        The Tempest

 Hazlitt:        Romeo and Juliet

 Hazlitt:        Twelfth Night

 Hazlitt:        Othello

 Hazlitt:        The Merchant of Venice

 Hazlitt:        The Taming of the Shrew

 Hazlitt:        Anthony and Cleopatra

 Hazlitt:        A Midsummer Night's Dream

 Hazlitt:        Richard III

The Writings of Charles Cowden Clarke:

Clarke:         Much Ado About Nothing

Clarke:         A Midsummer Night's Dream

Clarke:         The Tempest

More Criticisms:

Critic George MacDonald on Shakespeare

An Anonymous Critic On Shakespeare and Hamlet

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Critic  A. C. Bradley on Shakespeare's Tragedies

*The entire book Characters of Shakespeare by William Hazlitt can be found at http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/hazlittw_charsp/charsp_titlepage.html

A Dissertation on Shakespeare entitled   THE DRAMATIC FUNCTION OF DISORDER, CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE IN SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES AND ROMANCES by Raymond Jusatin Hoole         http://www.3quavers.co.uk/thesis/thesis.htm

Newer Articles on Shakespeare:

Revisiting Shakespeare and Gender

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall96/gerlach.html (Reference from http://www.IPL.org )

 

Shakespeare; or, the Poet  http://www.bartleby.com/90/0405.html

Lecture given by Ralph Waldo Emerson from the book "Representative Men."   (Reference from http://www.IPL.org )

Shakespeare: Life and Plays  http://www.bartleby.com/215/index.html#8

 Internet Public Library descrbes this page by saying this: "The great teacher and scholar George Saintsbury created this Shakespeare reference in chapters from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Vol.5, The Drama to 1642, Part One"

Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English?

http://chass.utoronto.ca/emls/si-01/si-01davidson.html Internet Public Library describes this article:  "This paper discusses whether Shakespeare's use of archaic words was both deliberate and a common poetic device at the time. Contains: Criticism by Mary Catherine Davidson First Published in Early Modern Literary Studies Special Issue 1 (1997): 4.1-14." [Data given in this citation provided by http://www.IPL.org , Internet Public Library]

Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/connotations/index.html