Familiar Talks on Some of Shakspeare's Comedies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Familiar Talks on Some of Shakspeare's Comedies

If I can do anything towards opening the mighty book for those who have not time or facilities for searching out what I have done from various sources, I shall feel very glad that I undertook a task which at first I shrank from as beyond my powers.

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Excerpt from Familiar Talks on Some of Shakspeare's Comedies

These Parlor Lectures were given in Baltimore, to a large and appreciative class of ladies. In examining great masses of Shakspearian criticism during their preparation, I was surprised to find how little of the same kind of work has been done. We have (besides Hudson and Dowden) Hazlitt's characters, which are very brief; Coleridge's inestimable notes, which too often are mere jottings; Maginn's papers, which I find a little strained; Gervinus, who writes with Teutonic care, insight, and heaviness; Richard Grant White, whose most finished essay is on a play not included in this volume; Christopher North, whose sparklets of Shakspearian criticism are scattered up and down old volumes of Blackwood; Mrs. Jameson's most excellent "Characteristics of Women;" Lady Martin's recent letters on some of Shakspeare's female characters; and a series of papers, still incomplete, in the English "Monthly Packet" (edited by Miss Yonge), called "Shakspeare Talks with Uncritical People," by Constance O'Brian.

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