The writings in this collection first appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, the well-known nineteenth-century journal whose first editor was Charles Dickens. Their author, William Maginn, was widely acknowledged as one of the most eccentric and brilliant periodical writers of his time. This volume, consisting of two parts, was put together by his friends and well-wishers after his death in 1842. The first part, The Shakespeare Papers, features eight essays that display Maginn's brilliantly tangential and often counter-intuitive ...
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The writings in this collection first appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, the well-known nineteenth-century journal whose first editor was Charles Dickens. Their author, William Maginn, was widely acknowledged as one of the most eccentric and brilliant periodical writers of his time. This volume, consisting of two parts, was put together by his friends and well-wishers after his death in 1842. The first part, The Shakespeare Papers, features eight essays that display Maginn's brilliantly tangential and often counter-intuitive approach to Shakespearean characters and includes his views on Falstaff, Jacques, Romeo, Bottom, Lady Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Polonius and Iago. The second part, Pictures Grave and Gay, consists of four short stories peopled with eccentric characters and brimming with Maginn's odd wit. The spectrum of writing contained in this volume gives the reader a rich harvest of literary nuggets that is both historical and timeless.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 16mo-over 5? "-6? " tall; Type: Ex-Library London, Bentley Publishers, 1859. Small Library Re-bound Hardcover in Good Condition. No Jacket. 368 pages. 6.5" x 4.4". These papers first appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, and are here collected into this book, noted Sept, 1859. In brown full cloth w/black titles to spine, quite clean, faint rubbing to lower edge. Sewn binding tight, solid and square. Library endpapers, pocket, lib stamps. Pages toned, very clean, no markings of any kind. A nice, solid 1859 volume. Richard Bentley, London, England.
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New. Trade paperback (US). 380 p. Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama . Worked examples or Exercises. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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