ABSTRACT

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|2 pages

Webster on 'the White Devil, 1612

chapter 4|1 pages

Three Poems for 'the Duchess 1623

chapter 5|1 pages

Fitzjeffrey's Portrait of Webster, 1617

chapter 10|2 pages

Langbaine's Webster, 1691

chapter 12|3 pages

Nahum Tate Rewrites 'the White Devil, 1707

chapter 14|2 pages

Charles Lamb: Webster Reclaimed, 1808

chapter 15|1 pages

Reactions to Lamb, 1809

chapter 16|1 pages

Nathan Drake Ranks the Elizabethans, 1817

chapter 17|3 pages

'Blackwood's' Reviews Webster, 1818

chapter 18|1 pages

Campbell Refutes Lamb, 1819

chapter 19|5 pages

Hazlitt on Webster, 1819,1826

chapter 20|1 pages

Lord Byron Resists but Reads, 1820,1821

chapter 21|1 pages

Shelley's Tastes, C. 1820

chapter 23|4 pages

Dyce's Introduction to Webster, 1830

chapter 24|4 pages

George Darley Writes of Webster, 1831

chapter 26|2 pages

A Historian's Webster, 1839

chapter 27|1 pages

The Student's Webster, 1848

chapter 28|11 pages

'The Duchess of Malfi' on Stage, 1850

chapter 30|5 pages

'The Duchess' in the Usa, 1857-9

chapter 31|3 pages

The Canon Fires, 1856

chapter 35|5 pages

Ward's 'history', 1875

chapter 36|7 pages

Swinburne on Webster, 1882,1886

chapter 37|4 pages

James Russell Lowell Lectures, 1887

chapter 38|2 pages

Saintsbury's Survey, 1887

chapter 39|4 pages

J. A. Symonds on Webster, 1888

chapter 40|5 pages

The Typical Webster, 1892

chapter 42|11 pages

Archer Attacks, 1893

chapter 43|3 pages

William Poel Defends Webster, 1893

chapter 44|5 pages

A Traditionalist Protests, 1893

chapter 45|4 pages

Gosse on Webster's 'tragic Poem', 1894

chapter 46|2 pages

Webster in the 'dnb', 1899