LONDON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY“,-

SCOT’S CORPORATION HALL,
CRANE COURT, FLEET STREET,

(ENTRANCE FROM FETTER LANE.)

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$1113, COLERIDGE

“'1 LL COMMEXCE

ON MONDAY, NOV. 18th,
24 COURSE OF LECTUR ES UN SHAKESPEAR AND flHLTON;
m ILLUSTRATION on
THE PRINCIPLES or POETRY,-

AND THEIR

Application as Grounds of Criticism to t/ic most popular Works of Zaler EligZESIc‘
Poets, those oft/26 Living included;

 

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AFTER an introductory Lecture on False Criticism, (especially in Poetry) and

on its Causes : two thirds of the remaining course, will be assigned, lst, to a philomphic Analysis
and Explanation of all the principal Characters of our great Dramatist, as OTHELLO, FALSTM‘F,
RICHARD 3d, Iaoo, HAMLET, Sac. : and 2nd, to a critical Comparison of SIIAKESPEAR, in respect
of Diction, Imagery, management of the Passions, Judgment in the construction of his Dramas, in
short, of all that belongs to him as a Poet, and as a dramatic Poet, with his contemporaries, or
immediate successors, JONSON, BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, FORD, MASSINGER, &c. in the
endeavour to determine what of SHAKESPEAR’S Merits and Detects are common to him with

ether Writers of the same age, and what remain peculiar to his own Genius.

The Course will extend to fifteen Lectures, which will be given on Monday
and Thursday evenings successively. The Lectures to commence at % past 7 o’clock.

Single Tickets for the whole Course, 2 Guineas; or 3 Guineas with the privi-
lege of introducing a Lady: maybe procured at J. Hatchard's, 190, Piccadilly; Jr'hlurray's,
Fleet Street; J. and A. Arch’s, Booksellers and Stationers, Cornhill; Godwin’s Juvenile Library,
Skinner Street; W. Popl‘e’s, 67, Chancery Lane; or by Letter (post paid) to Mr. S. T. Coleridge,
J. J. Morgan's, Esq. No. 7, Portland Place, Hammersmith.

 

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