1. William Shakespeare and Modern Literature
A pioneer in his art, he flouted all theatrical conventions of his time and in doing so, altered the very structure of drama. ... Johnson's edition of Shakespeare (1765), he writes, "This is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions." ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate