ABSTRACT
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PAULINE
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PARACELSUS
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STRAFFORD
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SORDELLO
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PIPPA PASSES
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KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES
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DRAMATIC LYRICS
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THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES
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A BLOT IN THE ‘SCUTCHEON
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COLOMBE’S BIRTHDAY
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DRAMATIC ROMANCES AND LYRICS
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LURIA; AND A SOUL’S TRAGEDY
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BELLS AND POMEGRANATES
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ON THE RE-PRODUCTION OF A BLOT
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CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY
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A PRODUCTION OF COLOMBE’S BIRTHDAY
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MEN AND WOMEN
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SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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THE RING AND THE BOOK
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BALAUSTION’S ADVENTURE, INCLUDING A TRANSCRIPT FROM EURIPIDES
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PRINCE HOHENSTIEL—SCHWANGAU, SAVIOUR OF SOCIETY
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FIFINE AT THE FAIR
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RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY
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ARISTOPHANES’ APOLOGY
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THE INN ALBUM
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PACCHIAROTTO, AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER
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THE AGAMEMNON OF ÆSCHYLUS
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LA SAISIAZ AND THE TWO POETS OF CROISIC
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DRAMATIC IDYLS
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SELECTIONS FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING
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JOCOSERIA
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FERISHTAH’S FANCIES
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A BLOT REVIVED
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PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE IN THEIR DAY
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ASOLANDO: FANCIES AND FACTS