Autograph essays and lectures - drafts by William Hazlitt [manuscript], ca. 1812?-1821.
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Autograph essays and lectures - drafts by William Hazlitt [manuscript], ca. 1812?-1821.
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147 leaves.
Associated name
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830, author.
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Characters of Shakespear's plays.
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Characters of Shakespear's plays.
Scope and content
Contents : [On court-influence]; thoughts on capital punishment [e.g. cf leaves 31, 32 and p.329, vol. 19, Howes edit] - some used in On the punishment of death; lectures III, On Shakespeare and Milton, VI, On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc., and VII, On Burns and the old English ballads, from Lectures on the English poets; lecture I, On wit and humour, from Lectures on the comic writers ... of Great Britain; lecture I, General view of the subject, from Lectures on the age of Elizabeth; part of Guy Faux, printed in The Examiner, November 1821; Mr. Kean's Coriolanus from The drama : II, printed with certain omissions, in The London Magazine, February 1820, and part of Much ado and the corrected proofs of all but the opening paragraph of Macbeth from Characters of Shakespeare's plays, 1817.
Note
Erratic pagination. Portion of volume only. Some essays are incomplete and some vary considerably from the printed version. Also, p. 17-22, 27-28, 23-26, 29-32 from some proofs.
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T.b.18
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cs326, 26?, 89, 663