Excerpt from Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth The former editions of the Lectures, originally deli vered by the author at the Surrey Institution in 1818, and published in the same year, having become ex hansted, the present reprint has been undertaken, for the purpose of supplying the constant and increasing demand which is made for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays A sfigfibiently full account of these tw courses of Lectures, and o( the circumstances under which they were originally delivered, upwards of, 'fifty years since, may be found m the Mam of W/ 1mm Hazlztt, 1867, 2 vols., 8vo. The present republication is a faithful copy of the Author's Editipns, whmh appeared, the Englzlvlz Poets m 1818, and the Englzir/t Comic Writa: in 1819. Of the former a second immesiux1 was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

William Hazlitt was a brilliant and perceptive essayist and critic in the early 19th Century whose critical impressions of his contemporaries and their work gave a sense of an age and the leading figures who populated it in a particularly vivid way.