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 student and researcher to read the material.

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VOLUME 4: PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT 137 MACNAMARA MORGAN, Romeo and Juliet acted and adapted, 1753 138 GEORGE COLMAN, Shakespeare’s self-criticism, 1753 139 JOSEPH WARTON on The Tempest and King Lear, 1753–4 140 ARTHUR MURPHY, Essays on Shakespeare, 1753–4 141 CHARLOTTE LENNOX, Shakespeare’s misuse of his sources, 1753–4 142 ZACHARY GREY and others, Notes on Shakespeare, 1754 143 ARTHUR MURPHY on Shakespeare’s ghost-scenes, November 1754 144 THOMAS SHERIDAN, Thomson’s Coriolanus conflated with Shakespeare’s, 1754 145 DAVID HUME, Shakespeare and Jacobean taste, 1754 146 DAVID GARRICK, in defence of Shakespeare musicals, 1755 147 JOHN GILBERT COOPER, The Tomb of Shakespeare. A Poetical Vision, 1755 148 JOSEPH SHEBBEARE, Othello and King Lear in the theatre, 1755 149 CHRISTOPHER SMART on Shakespeare’s learning, January 1756 150 DAVID GARRICK, from his adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, 1756 151 DAVID GARRICK, in defence of Shakespeare musicals, 1756 152 DAVID GARRICK, from his musical adaptation of The Tempest, 1756 153 CHARLES MARSH, from his adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, 1756 154 TOBIAS SMOLLETT and SAMUEL DERRICK on the current adaptations of Shakespeare, March 1756 155 JOHN BERKENHOUT on Marsh’s adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, March 1756 156 FRANCES BROOKE on King Lear, March 1756 157 THEOPHILUS CIBBER, Garrick’s Shakespeare, 1756 158 JOSEPH WARTON on Shakespeare, 1756 159 TOBIAS SMOLLETT on Shakespeare’s imperfections, 1756 160 SAMUEL JOHNSON, Proposals for an edition of Shakespeare, 1756 161 ARTHUR MURPHY, Shakespeare in the London theatres, 1757 162 RICHARD HURD on Shakespeare’s language and learning, 1757 163 Unsigned essay on Garrick’s Romeo, 1757 164 JOHN ARMSTRONG, Shakespearian jottings, 1758 165 JOSEPH PITTARD, Garrick’s Lear, 1758 166 WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Garrick’s sins as actor and adapter, 1758 167 Unsigned essay, Shakespeare weighed and measured, January 1758 168 THOMAS EDWARDS on Warburton’s Shakespeare, 1758169 RICHARD RODERICK, Remarks on Shakespeare, 1758 170 ARTHUR MURPHY, Shakespeare in the London theatres, 1758 171 ALEXANDER GERARD, Shakespeare and enlightened taste, 1759 172 EARL OF ORRERY, Shakespeare’s irregularities defended,1759 173 THOMAS WILKES, Shakespeare on the stage, 1759 174 OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Shakespeare’s absurdities and theatrical revivals, 1759 175 WILLIAM HAWKINS, from his adaptation of Cymbeline, 1759 176 CHARLES MARSH, from his adaptation of Cymbeline, 1759 177 WILLIAM KENRICK on the adaptations of Cymbeline, May1759 178 ‘SIR’ JOHN HILL on a revival of Antony and Cleopatra, 1759 179 EDWARD YOUNG, Shakespeare’s genius, 1759 180 THOMAS FRANCKLIN, Shakespeare’s tragedies supreme, 1760 181 LORD LYTTELTON, an imaginary conversation on Shakespeare, 1760 182 Unsigned essay, ‘On the Merits of Shakespeare and Corneille’, June 1760 183 Unsigned review, an Ode to Shakespeare, September 1760 184 ROBERT LLOYD, Shakespeare greater than the rules, 1760 185 THADY FITZPATRICK, Garrick’s speaking of Shakespeare, 1760 186 CHARLES CHURCHILL, Shakespeare and Garrick supreme, 1761 187 GEORGE COLMAN on Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, 1761 188 BENJAMIN VICTOR, Shakespeare acted and adapted, 1761 189 HUGH KELLY, Garrick’s Shakespeare, 1761–2 190 TOBIAS SMOLLETT on Garrick’s adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, February 1762 191 Unsigned notices, Garrick’s Shakespeare, 1762 192 DAVID GARRICK, the coronation procession in Henry VIII, 1762 193 LORD KAMES, Shakespeare’s beauties and faults, 1762 194 TOBIAS SMOLLETT, Shakespeare’s faulty style, 1762 195 DANIEL WEBB, Shakespeare’s poetry, 1762 196 BENJAMIN VICTOR, from his adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1762 197 K.L., ‘Shakespeare and Milton Compared’, July 1763 198 Unsigned essay, ‘An Account of the Novel and Play of Romeo and Juliet’, 1764 199 EDWARD WATKINSON on Shakespeare, 1764–5 200 RICHARD HURD, Shakespeare and Gothic romance, 1765 201 THOMAS PERCY, Shakespeare and the History Play, 1765 202 HORACE WALPOLE on Shakespeare and French rules, 1765 203 BENJAMIN HEATH on restoring Shakespeare’s text, March 1765 204 GEORGE STEEVENS on restoring Shakespeare’s text, 1765 A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX