Excerpt from The Heart of Hamlet's Mystery Goethe, by the substantially similar theories they advanced in regard to the man Hamlet, contributed more, especially Goethe (as he exercised a wider authority than Coleridge), toward shutting off a sound criticism of the play than any other critics or any other cause. Their dicta were generally accepted as quite final; and many a Shakespeare student now living, whatever his present views may be, can remember when he so accepted them, and had not a glimmer of suspicion that in the ...
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Excerpt from The Heart of Hamlet's Mystery Goethe, by the substantially similar theories they advanced in regard to the man Hamlet, contributed more, especially Goethe (as he exercised a wider authority than Coleridge), toward shutting off a sound criticism of the play than any other critics or any other cause. Their dicta were generally accepted as quite final; and many a Shakespeare student now living, whatever his present views may be, can remember when he so accepted them, and had not a glimmer of suspicion that in the main they might be wide of the mark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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