No one not a
fool can read Johnson's notes on Shakespeare without respect or fail
to turn to them again with an increased trust in his common-sense,
as no one not a fool can read Hazlitt without an equal sense that he
has the root of the matter, or of the spirit which is the matter.
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH 1916
TO CHARLES LAMB, ESQ.
THIS VOLUME IS INSCBIBED AS A MARK OF OLD FRIENDSHIP AND LASTING
ESTEEM
BY THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
PREFACE
CYMBELINE
MACBETH
JULIUS CAESAR
OTHELLO
TIMON OF ATHENS
CORIOLANUS
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
HAMLET
THE TEMPEST
THE MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
ROMEO AND JULIET
LEAR
RICHARD II
HENRY IV IN TWO PARTS
HENRY V HENRY VI IN THREE PARTS
RICHARD III
HENRY VIII
KING JOHN
TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
THE WINTER'S TALE
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
AS YOU LIKE IT
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
DOUBTFUL PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
POEMS AND SONNETS
PREFACE
It is observed by Mr. Pope, that 'If ever any author deserved the
name of an ORIGINAL, it was Shakespeare. Homer himself drew not his
art so immediately from the fountains of nature; it proceeded
through AEgyptian strainers and channels, and came to him not
without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models,
of those before him.
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