文档介绍：WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
VOLUME 2, 1693–1733
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES
General Editor:
The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each
volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the
formation of critical attitudes to the writer’s work and its place within a literary tradition.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of
contemporary opinion and little published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.
Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in
reputation following the writer’s death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
VOLUME 2,1693–1733 THE CRITICAL
HERITAGE
Edited by
BRIAN VICKERS
London and New York
First Published in 1974
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Compilation, introduction, notes and index © 1974 Brian Vickers
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ISBN 0-203-19787-9 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-19790-9 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-13405-6 (Print Edition)
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General Editor’s Preface
The reception given to a writer by his contemporaries and near-contemporaries is evidence of considerable
value to the student of literature. On one sid