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.

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VOLUME 3: PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT 84 DAVID MALLET, textual criticism attacked, 1733 85 WILLIAM POPPLE on Polonius, May 1735 86 AARON HILL on King Lear and Hamlet, October 1735 87 GEORGE STUBBES on Hamlet, 1736 88 ALEXANDER POPE, conversations, 1736 Unsigned essays, Shakespeare and the actors, December 1736; February, March 1737 71 90 THOMAS BIRCH and WILLIAM WARBURTON on Shakespeare’s life and works, 1739 91 WILLIAM SMITH, Shakespeare and the Sublime, 1739 92 COLLEY CIBBER, Shakespeare in the theatre, 1740 93 THOMAS GRAY, Shakespeare’s language, April 1742 94 THOMAS COOKE, a panegyric to Shakespeare, 1743 95 WILLIAM COLLINS, a panegyric to Shakespeare, 1743 96 SIR THOMAS HANMER, preface to Shakespeare, 1744 97 JOSEPH WARTON, Shakespeare: Nature’s child, 1744 98 CORBYN MORRIS, Falstaff’s humour, 1744 99 DAVID GARRICK, How not to act Macbeth, 1744 100 DAVID GARRICK, from his presentation of Macbeth, 1744 101 DAVID GARRICK, from his presentation of Othello, 1745 102 COLLEY CIBBER, adaptation of King John, 1745 103 Unsigned essay against Cibber’s King John, 1745 104 ELIZAH HAYWOOD on the adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, 1745 105 SAMUEL JOHNSON on Macbeth, 1745 106 MARK AKENSIDE, Shakespeare weighed and measured, December 1746 107 WILLIAM GUTHRIE on Shakespearian tragedy, 1747 108 Unsigned essay on jealousy in Othello, August 1747 109 SAMUEL FOOTE, Shakespeare and the actors, 1747 110 SAMUEL FOOTE on the Unities, 1747 111 WILLIAM WARBURTON, edition of Shakespeare, 1747 112 Unsigned essay, Shakespeare the dramatist, 1747 113 PETER WHALLEY on Shakespeare’s learning, 1748 114 JOHN UPTON on Shakespeare, 1748 115 SAMUEL RICHARDSON on poetic justice, 1748 116 Unsigned essay on Shakespeare’s morality compared with Otway’s, November, December 1748 117 DAVID GARRICK, adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, 1748 118 JOHN HOLT, Remarks on ‘The Tempest’, 1749 119 MARK AKENSIDE, Shakespeare attacks Francophilia, 1749 120 RICHARD HURD on Shakespeare and ordinary life, 1749 121 DAVID GARRICK on Shakespeare’s temple, September 1750 122 Unsigned essay, Shakespeare and the rules, 1750 123 ‘SIR’ JOHN HILL, Shakespeare and the actors, 1750 124 ARTHUR MURPHY on Romeo and Juliet, October 1750 125 Unsigned poem, ‘Shakespeare’s Ghost’, June 1750 126 THOMAS SEWARD on Shakespeare, 1750 127 THOMAS EDWARDS, Warburton exposed, 1750 128 RICHARD HURD on Shakespeare, 1751 129 SAMUEL JOHNSON on Shakespeare, November 1750; September, October 1751 130 Unsigned essay on jealousy in Othello, November 1751 131 WILLIAM MASON, a proposal to revive the Chorus, 1751 132 THOMAS GRAY, the Chorus rejected, c. December 1751 133 ARTHUR MURPHY, the Chorus rejected, September 1752 134 Unsigned essay on Hamlet, 1752 135 BONNELL THORNTON on Shakespeare, February, March 1752 136 WILLIAM DODD on Shakespeare, 1752 A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX