Abstract

List of illustrations Preface List of abbreviations 1. Irish beginnings 2. 'Shakspearomania' 3. Dr Johnson and the club 4. Courtship, books, forgeries, and Horace Walpole 5. Scholarship and strife 6. 'O Brave We!': helping Boswell with the Tour of the Hebrides 7. Deep in Shakespeare 8. Boswell's Life of Johnson 9. Interruptions and disappointments 10. The club of Hercules: exposing Shakespeare forgeries 11. Art and politics: homage to Reynolds and Burke 12. John Dryden and the closing of the century 13. Signs of weariness 14. 'The last of the Shakspearians' Epilogue: The Malone-Boswell Third Variorum Edition (1821) Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.

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