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Kubla Khan Summary Kubla Khan Summary:Kubla Khan ordered a splendid pleasure dome to be built where the sacred rives Alph ran underground down to dark sea. These enclosed ten …
Act I The play opens with a ship-wreck. The passengers are very distinguished and important personages. They are Alonso, the King of Naples; Sebastian, his brother; Antonio, the usurping …
Samuel Johnson Preface To Shakespeare I. LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON Samuel Johnson was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, on September 18, 1709. His father was a provincial bookseller; it was …
Symposium of Critics on Johnson and his Preface to Shakespeare JOHNSON AS A SHAKESPEARIAN EDITOR W:K. Wimsatt. Johnson entertained very sound views about the philological part of an editor’s …
JOHNSON’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT EARLIER EDITIONS AND JOHNSON’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO THEM Shakespeare’s obscurities. Most of the publishers of Shakespeare have been rather careless in their work. They have not merely corrupted …
SHAKESPEARE AND HIS AGE SHAKESPEARE AND HIS AGE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND NATIVE GENIUS Shakespeare’s aim to please his audience. Shakespeare’s ignorance of rules, if it was ignorance at all, would require …
Summary of Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE’S ENDURING APPEAL Approach towards antiquity. Some people lament that the dead are praised unreasonably. They hold that the criteria of evaluating a writer …
JOHNSON’S ‘PREFACE’ TO SHAKESPEARE Dr. Johnson’s evaluation. Johnson’s Preface and his notes on Shakespeare’s plays contributed greatly to the body of English criticism. Johnson sets out in a traditional …
JOHNSON A SHAKESPEAREAN EDITOR Introduction. The two most outstanding contributions of Dr. Johnson are his Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare’s plays. As far as the latter is concerned, Johnson …