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.
- ISBN10 0300006055
- ISBN13 9780300006056
- Publish Date 10 September 1968
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1143
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300006056