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  • Preface to the first collection of Shakespeare's plays, 1623 / John Heminge, Henry Condell
  • From The Spectator, 1711-14 / Joseph Addison, Richard Steele
  • To the memory of my beloved, the author, 1623 / Ben Jonson
  • De Shakespeare nostrati, 1641 / Ben Jonson
  • On Shakespeare, 1630 / John Milton
  • On Worthy master Shakespeare and his poems, 1632 / I.M.S.
  • William Shakespeare / Thomas Fuller
  • Letter CXXIII, 1664 / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
  • From Of Dramatick poesie, 1668 / John Dryden
  • From various prefaces and prologues / John Dryden
  • From Theatrum poetarum, 1675 / Edward Phillips
  • From Some account of the life of Mr. William Shakespeare, 1709 / Nicholas Rowe
  • From the Preface to Shakespeare's works, 1725 / Alexander Pope
  • From the epistle To Augustus, 1737 / Alexander Pope
  • From a letter to Richard West, 1742 / Thomas Gray
  • From The Progress of poesy, 1757 / Thomas Gray
  • From The Adventurer, 1753-54 / Joseph Wartom
  • From Elements of criticism, 1762 / Henry Home, Lord Kames
  • From Dialogue of the dead, 1765 / George, Lord Lyttelton
  • From the Prologue at the opening of Drury-Lane theatre, 1747 / Samuel Johnson
  • From the dedication to Shakespear illustrated, 1753 / Samuel Johnson
  • From the editions of Shakespeare's works, 1765 / Samuel Johnson
  • From Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare, 1785 / Thomas Whately
  • From the introduction of A Philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters, 1774 / William Richardson
  • From An Essay on the dramatic character of Sir John Falstaff, 1777 / Maurice Morgann
  • On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, 1811 / Charles Lamb
  • From Biographia literaria, 1817 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • From the Lectures / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • From Table-talk / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • From Characters of Shakespear's plays, 1817 / William Hazlitt
  • From Lectures on the English poets, 1818 / William Hazlitt
  • From Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth, 1820 / William Hazlitt
  • From Review of Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespear's plays, 1817 / Francis Jeffrey
  • On the Knocking at the gate in Macbeth, 1823 / Thomas de Quincey
  • From Imaginary conversations, 1846 / Walter Savage Landor
  • The Hero as poet, 1840 / Thomas Carlyle