Coleridge: Lectures on Shakespeare (1811-1819)
Adam Roberts and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Abstract
This book comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1811–12 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and 1818–19 Lectures on Shakespeare. Coleridge is a foundational figure in Shakespeare criticism, and remains to this day one of the most incisive and best. The book provides a background context into Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare, and looks into Coleridge's life and career, giving special attention to his position as a lecturer as well as the general content of his lectures. The book also explores Coleridge's relationships with August Wilhelm Schegel and William Hazlitt ... More
This book comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1811–12 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and 1818–19 Lectures on Shakespeare. Coleridge is a foundational figure in Shakespeare criticism, and remains to this day one of the most incisive and best. The book provides a background context into Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare, and looks into Coleridge's life and career, giving special attention to his position as a lecturer as well as the general content of his lectures. The book also explores Coleridge's relationships with August Wilhelm Schegel and William Hazlitt and their own scholarship on Shakespeare's oeuvre.
Keywords:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Shakespeare,
Milton,
Shakespeare criticism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474413787 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413787.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Adam Roberts, editor
University of London, Royal Holloway
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, author
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