Preface to Shakespeare is a classic Shakespeare studies text by Samuel Johnson. That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time.
Some of the notes to Measure for Measure, Henry IV, Henry V, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello
| ISBN: | 9781774414279 |
| Publication date: | 5th March 2020 |
| Author: | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher: | Binker North an imprint of Brian Westland |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 74 pages |
| Genres: |
History of art Literary essays Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 |
Preface to Shakespeare is a classic Shakespeare studies text by Samuel Johnson. That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time.Some of the notes to Measure for Measure, Henry IV, Henry V, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello
Preface to Shakespeare features in the following genres: History of art, Literary essays, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
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Preface to Shakespeare was written by Samuel Johnson and published by Binker North an imprint of Brian Westland
Preface to Shakespeare has 74 pages