Coleridge : Lectures on Shakespeare (1811-1819) / edited by Adam Roberts.

Selected lectures, reproduced from various sources.

"This volume comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridges 1811-12 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and 1818-19 Lectures on Shakespeare."--Publisher's Web site.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Lectures on Shakespeare 1811-1812. -- Lecture 1. Monday, 18 November 1811 (On the Principles of Criticism) -- Lecture 2. Thursday, 21 November 1811 (On Poetry) -- Lecture 3. Monday, 25 November 1811 (On Dramatic Poetry) -- Lecture 4. Thursday, 28 November 1811 (Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece) -- Lecture 5. Monday, 2 December 1811 (Love's Labour's Lost) -- Lecture 6. Thursday, 5 December 1811 (On Shakespeare's Wit) -- Lecture 7. Monday, 9 December 1811 (Romeo and Juliet) -- Lecture 8. Thursday, 12 December 1811 (Romeo and Juliet) -- Lecture 9. Monday, 16 December 1811 (The Tempest) -- Lecture 12. Thursday, 2 January 1812 (Richard II Hamlet) -- Lectures on Shakespeare 1818-1819. Lecture 1. Thursday, 17 December 1818 (The Tempest) -- Lecture 3. Thursday, 7 January 1819 (Hamlet) -- Lecture 4. Thursday, 14 January 1819 (Macbeth) -- A Portion of Lecture 5. Thursday, 21 January 1819 (Othello) -- Lecture 6. Thursday, 28 January 1819 (King Lear) -- Lectures on Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Spenser, Ariosto and Cervantes, 1819. A Portion of Lecture 3. Thursday, 25 February 1819 (Troilus and Cressida) -- Appendix : a hitherto unnoticed account of Coleridge's 1811-1812 lecture series.

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A newly edited readers' edition of Coleridge's foundational lectures on Shakespeare.<script type=text/javascript" src="http://books.google.com/books/previewlib.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9781474413787', 'ISBN:9781474413794', 'ISBN:9781474413800']);</script> This volume comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1811-12 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and 1818-19 Lectures on Shakespeare. Coleridge is a foundational figure in Shakespeare criticism, and remains to this day one of the most incisive and best. Nobody interested in Coleridge, Shakespeare or Literary Criticism more broadly can afford to be ignorant of Coleridge's famous lectures. Key Features<ul><li>A new edition of one of Romanticism's (and English Literature's) most influential critics lectures on Shakespeare</li><li>Newly edited to take advantage of modern scholarship and new electronic research resources; an edition in which all hitherto untraced allusions and quotations have been identified</li><li>Unlike other editions, this presents the lectures as works of fluent and readable prose, rather than notes or shorthand jotting.</li><li>The volume follows the same format, and embodies many of the specific features, as the editor's new edition of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (2014)</li></ul>

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