By R. A. Foakes

ISBN-10: 041535286X

ISBN-13: 9780415352864

ISBN-10: 0415489156

ISBN-13: 9780415489157

First released in 1971.

the single giant textual content of a chain of lectures on Shakespeare via S T Coleridge is that supplied via J P Collier's Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton
(1856). His textual content of those very important lectures given through Coleridge in 1811-12 has been the root of all sleek variants. This variation is predicated on hitherto unpublished transcripts of the lectures made via Collier while, as a tender guy, he attended Coleridge's lectures. R A Foakes' advent and appendices reveal the level to which Collier revised and changed Coleridge's phrases for the variation he released forty-five years later. This quantity for that reason presents a way more authoritative textual content of Coleridge's most vital Shakespeare lectures.

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