Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays

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Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays is William Hazlitt’s influential early 19th-century critical study that offers vivid, psychologically rich essays on the major figures in Shakespeare’s dramas.

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instanceOf essay collection
literary criticism book
author William Hazlitt NERFINISHED
centuryOfPublication 19th century
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalApproach character-centered analysis
impressionistic criticism
psychological interpretation
focusesOn characters in Shakespeare’s plays
interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedies
interpretation of Shakespeare’s histories
interpretation of Shakespeare’s tragedies
psychological analysis of characters
genre Romantic criticism
hasForm book
hasPart essay on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
essay on As You Like It
essay on Coriolanus
essay on Falstaff
essay on Hamlet
essay on Henry IV
essay on Henry V
essay on Iago
essay on Julius Caesar
essay on King Lear
essay on Macbeth
essay on Much Ado About Nothing
essay on Othello
essay on Romeo and Juliet
essay on The Merchant of Venice
essay on The Tempest
essay on Twelfth Night
influenced 19th-century Shakespeare criticism
Victorian Shakespeare scholarship
modern character-based literary criticism
influencedBy Romantic literary theory
William Shakespeare NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement Romanticism
mediaType print
notableFor influence on later Shakespearean criticism
psychological depth of character analysis
vivid prose style
periodOfComposition early 19th century
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1817
publisher C. H. Reynell NERFINISHED
subject Shakespearean drama
William Shakespeare NERFINISHED
literary criticism

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