Abstract
This chapter discusses literary criticism about Shakespeare's works. Professor Raysor's introduction to Coleridge's criticism is a masterly study of some of the main themes of Shakespearean study. Despite its bulk, Coleridge's work is fragmentary, consisting of marginalia, notes from manuscripts, lecture notes, and reports of lecture series delivered from time to time between 1808 and 1819. Despite the lack of any careful plan or logical development, the fragments present a body of work which the learned are happy continually to study. Coleridge can retain his critical powers while at the same time insisting that the Englishman who without reverence, who without a proud and affectionate reverence can utters the name of Shakespeare, stands disqualified of the office.
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