Excerpt from Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of Shakespear's Plays A sfigfibiently full account of these tw courses of Lectures, and o( the circumstances under which they were originally delivered, upwards of, 'fifty years since, may be found m the Mam of W/ 1mm Hazlztt, 1867, 2 vols., 8vo. The present republication is a faithful copy of the Author's Editipns, whmh appeared, the Englzlvlz Poets m 1818, and the Englzir/t Comic Writa: in 1819. Of the former a second immesiux1 was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.