Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Early works to 1800

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• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation

• An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, Compared With the Greek and French Dramatic Poets, With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire (third edition; London: Printed by H. Hughs, for E. and C. Dilly, 1772), by Mrs. Montagu (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Preface to Shakespeare, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Among My Books (first series), by James Russell Lowell (Gutenberg text)
• Notes Upon Some of Shakespeare's Plays (London: R. Bentley and son, 1882), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and Lectures (new edition; Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1874), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Shakespearean Imagination (New York: Macmillan, c1964), by Norman Norwood Holland (page images at ufl.edu)
• A Study of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne (HTML at Indiana)

• Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960, by John W. Velz (page images at uvic.ca)

• The Great Folio of 1623: Shakespeare's Plays in the Printing House, by John W. Shroeder (page images at CMU)

• Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare (Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903), ed. by David Nichol Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only