TWO ASPECTS OF SHAKSPEARE'S ART

THAT which Coleridge termed the aesthetic criticism of Shakspeare was so sorely done to death in his own day-not certainly by himself, or by Lamb, but by critics, who, while they abused them, wrote in roundabout imitation of them-that there eventually occurred a natural and complete critical reactio...

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Published in:The Contemporary review, 1866-1900 1866-1900, 1883-06, Vol.43, p.883-900
Main Author: Caine, T Hall
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Language:English
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Summary:THAT which Coleridge termed the aesthetic criticism of Shakspeare was so sorely done to death in his own day-not certainly by himself, or by Lamb, but by critics, who, while they abused them, wrote in roundabout imitation of them-that there eventually occurred a natural and complete critical reaction. The Shakspeare scholarship which succeeded the transcendentalism of the first thirty years of the century took form about 1840 in the unquestionably concrete investigations of the first Shakspeare Society.
ISSN:0010-7565