The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Introduction; Note on the Text; 29: Thomas Rymer, fromA Short View of
Tragedy; 30: John Dennis on Rymer;
31. John Dryden on Rymer;
32. Charles
Gildon on Rymer; 33: John Dryden on Rymer; 34: Jeremy Collier, from A Short
View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage; 35: Unsigned
work, Shakespeare defended from Collier; 36: John Dennis, Shakespeare
defended; 37: James Drake, Shakespeare defended; 38: Colley Cibber, from his
adaptation of Richard III; 39: Samuel Cobb, Shakespeare's artless tragedies;
40: Charles Gildon, from his adaptation of Measure for Measure; 41: John
Oldmixon on the mangling of Shakespeare's plays; 42: John Dennis on
Shakespeare's morals; 43: George Granville, from his adaptation of The
Merchant of Venice; 44: John Dennis, from his adaptation of The Merry Wives
of Windsor; 45: George Farquhar on the Three Unities; 46: John Downes,
Shakespeare on the Restoration stage; 47: Nicholas Rowe, Shakespeare's life
and works; 48: Sir Richard Steele, from the Tatler; 49: Henry Felton on
Shakespeare's genius; 50: Charles Gildon, Shakespeare's life and works; 51:
The Earl of Shaftesbury on Shakespeare; 52: Elijah Fenton on Shakespeare; 53:
Joseph Trapp, Shakespeare and English drama; 54: Sir Richard Steele on
Shakespeare; 55: Joseph Addison on Shakespeare; 56: John Dennis on
Shakespeare's genius and morality; 57: Leonard Welsted, Longinus illustrated
from Shakespeare; 58: John Hughes on Othello; 59: Lewis Theobald on King
Lear, Othello and Julius Caesar; 60: Thomas Killigrew the younger,
suggestions for adapting Julius Caesar; 61: Thomas Purney, Shakespeare and
francophilia; 62: Charles Gildon, Shakespeare and the Rules; 63: George
Sewell on the mangling of Shakespeare's plays; 64: John Dennis, from his
adaptation ofCoriolanus; 65: John Dennis, letters on Shakespeare; 66: Lewis
Theobald, from his adaptation of Richard II; 67: John Dennis,Shakespeare and
the Rules; 68: Charles Gildon on Shakespeare's faults; 69: Aaron Hill, from
his adaptation of Henry V; 70: The Duke of Wharton, In praise of Hill's Henry
V; 71: Alexander Pope, edition of Shakespeare; 72: George Sewell on
Shakespeare's poems; 73: Richard Savage on The Rape of Lucrece; 74: Lewis
Theobald, from Shakespeare Restored; 75: Nicholas Amhurst(?) on Cardinal
Wolsey; George Adams, Shakespeare and tragedy; 77: Unsigned essay,
Shakespeare and the actors defended; 78: Lewis Theobald on editing
Shakespeare; 79: Thomas Cooke on the morality of Tate's King Lear; 80:
William Levin on the decline in theatrical taste; 81: Lewis Theobald, 'On the
text of Shakespeare's Poems'; 82: Lewis Theobald, edition of Shakespeare; 83:
William Warburton on Shakespeare
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