From the General Introduction: "Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others. I suspect that his emotional involvement took root when he read Shakespeare as a boy--one remembers the terror he experienced in reading of the Ghost in _Hamlet_, and it was probably also as a boy that he suffered that shock of horrified outrage and grief at the death of Cordelia that prevented him from rereading the scene until be came to edit the play. Johnson's deepest feelings and convictions, Professor Clifford has recently reminded us, can be traced back to his childhood and adolescence."
Notes to Shakepeare's Tragedies
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From the General Introduction: "Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others. I suspect that his emotional involvement took root when he read Shakespeare as a boy--one remembers the terror he experienced in reading of the Ghost in _Hamlet_, and it was probably also as a boy that he suffered that shock of horrified outrage and grief at the death of Cordelia that prevented him from rereading the scene until be came to edit the play. Johnson's deepest feelings and convictions, Professor Clifford has recently reminded us, can be traced back to his childhood and adolescence."
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Harvard Classics Volume 41 : English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Prefacio a Shakespeare
Prefacio a Shakespeare
The Works of Samuel Johnson: Parlimentary Debates I : Enriched edition. A Literary Insight into 18th-Century Parliamentary Discourse
The Works of Samuel Johnson: Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons : Enriched edition. Insightful Commentary and Historical Context
The Works of Samuel Johnson: Parlimentary Debates II : Enriched edition. The Art of Political Discourse in 18th-Century Britain
Rasselas, Prince d'Abyssinie
Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett : With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
Preface to Shakespeare : Enriched edition.