Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived About the Time of Shakspeare With Notes by C. Lamb

A landmark collection of essays and critical commentary by the esteemed British essayist and critic Charles Lamb, exploring the works of lesser-known playwrights from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras who were contemporaries and influences on Shakespeare. First published in 1808, this volume established Lamb as a leading scholar and advocate of Shakespearean studies and remains a classic of literary criticism.

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