Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 550 words | Copyright

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, essays by W. Hazlitt, published 1817. They comment not only upon Hamlet, Macbeth, and other fictional heroes but also upon the distinctive qualities of each major drama, and more generally upon the ‘magnanimity’ of Shakespeare's imagination. Especially notable is the essay on Coriolanus, which considers the affinities between poetic imagination and political power. Hazlitt rebukes S. Johnson for his unimaginative treatment of Shakespeare, and attempts a more flexibly sympathetic appreciation.

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