Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Edited, With a Critical Biography; With an Essay on the Chronology of Shakespeare
Among the many critics of Shakespeare, few have been so generally accepted as belonging to the first class as Schlegel, whose Lectures on Dramatic Literature were, upon their delivery in Vienna, hailed throughout Europe with marked approbation. His introductions to the separate Plays of Shakespeare are both descriptive and critical, and put the reader in a position to enjoy the Plays, if read before them, or give him an entertaining epitome of them, if read after wards.
F ew readers who have not specially studied the subject, are aware of the extent of Shakespeare's familiarity with the Bible, and his debt to it. The brief essay on that subject, with its accompanying quotations, gives suggestive help in reading the plays with this thought in view.
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