Seeing all the thank you I was like, "what? Can't anyone see the plainly visible mistakes this blogger has committed?
I too am actually thankful to him! There are some grammatic errors in this blog but This post is really awesome and I thanks for the post. Search This Blog. Jul 22, Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare. Johnson tests Shakespeare by the fact and experience, by the test of time, nature and universality, his defense to tragicomedy is superb and still unsurpassed; in which he has excelled his guru Dryden.
He finds Shakespeare great because he holds a mirror to nature. In minimized the importance of love on the sum of life, Johnson anticipates Shaw. In the mystery of Shakespeare tragedy was beyond the reach of his common sense. Nevertheless these shortcomings do not mar the basic merits of his Preface which is as immortal as the plays of Shakespeare and the tests of Shakespeare provided by him are valid even today.
Shakespeare was the first playwright whose tragic as well as comic plays succeeded in providing the dramatic pleasure appropriate to them. They are often verbose and too large for thought. Trivial ideas are clothed in sonorous epithets. He is too fond of puns and quibbles which engulf him in mire. For a pun, he sacrifices reason, propriety and truth. He often fails at moments of great excellence. Some contemptible conceit spoils the effect of his pathetic and tragic scenes.
Merits of Shakespeare: He perfected the blank verse, imparted to it diversity and flexibility and brought it nearer to the language of prose.
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Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson The essay is divided into three parts: 1. The three unities. Therefore, he wrote this essay. First paragraph modern practices were always about glorifying the old and degrading the modern. However if they only lasted for a little while then they failed. Sydney, J.
Dryden, and A. Pope said that we should model our work after the classical works. However, modern writers who tried to so only transposed the incidents and new named the characters. This is copying without creativity. Any work of literature that can bear with analysis proves its success. When a work of literature succeed in that it becomes more considered and best understood. Another example is the deal between Antonio and Shylock. Shakespeare left it for chance that Antonio will lose all of his money.
This is a very weak and coincidental plot device. For example, in King Lear we have a king and a fool.
The fool is a clown whose role is to make the audience laugh.
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