Comparative excellence : new essays on Shakespeare and Johnson
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Comparative excellence : new essays on Shakespeare and Johnson
(AMS studies in the eighteenth century, no. 52)
AMS Press, c2007
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Includes index
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Description
Presents a collection of essays, in which internationally-recognized Shakespearean scholars and equally eminent Johnsonians consider the relationship of these two central figures of the English canon - examining not just Shakespeare's influence on Dr Johnson, but also Johnson's influence on Shakespeare.
Table of Contents
- David Bevington, ""The Siren Call of Earlier Editorial Practice: Why Johnson Failed to Respond Fully to His Own Intuitions About the Principles of Textual Criticism and Editing""
- Robert DeMaria, ""Samuel Johnson and the Saxon Shakespeare""
- Peter Holland, ""Playing Johnson's Shakespeare""
- Nicholas Hudson, ""Shakespeare's Ghost: Johnson, Shakespeare, Garrick and Constructing the English Middle-Class""
- Jack Lynch, ""The Dignity of an Ancient: Johnson Edits the Editors""
- Anne McDermott, ""Johnson's Editing of Shakespeare in the Dictionary""
- Claude Rawson, ""Cooling to a Gypsy's Lust: Johnson, Shakespeare and Cleopatra""
- Stephen Orgel, ""Johnson's Lear""
- Aaron Santesso, ""'Now in London Place Him': Shakespeare and Johnson as Londoners""
- Tiffany Stern, ""'I Do Wish That You Had Mentioned Garrick': The Absence of David Ganick in Johnson's Shakespeare"".
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