Johnson on Shakespeare

Author(s)

• Johnson, Samuel
• Sherbo, Arthur
• Bronson, Bertrand Harris

Bibliographic Information

Johnson on Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson ; edited by Arthur Sherbo with an introduction by Bertrand H. Bronson

（The Yale edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, v. 7-8）

Yale University Press, c1968

• The first
• The second

Note

The Yale edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, v. 7: The first of two volumes of "Johnson on Shakespeare"

The Yale edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, v. 8: The second of two volumes of "Johnson on Shakespeare"

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Samuel Johnson's notes on Shakespeare gathered and annotated for the first time This first accurate and fully annotated text of an important segment of the Johnson canon features the notes of his first and revised editions of Shakespeare, the Preface and General Observations, the Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth, the Preface to Mrs. Lennox's Shakespeare Illustrated, and the Proposals for an Edition. Throughout, Johnson's likes and dislikes in language, imagery, and poetic and dramatic techniques are unmistakably expressed. To illuminate Johnson's comments, pertinent portions of Shakespeare's text are reproduced.

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Details

• NCID: BA03884211
• ISBN:
  • 9780300006056
  • 9780300006056
• LCCN: 57011918
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 23 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01410839