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'The preface to Shakespeare' by Samuel Johnson. Together with selected notes on some of the plays[From his annotated edition of Shakespeare's Plays, published in 1765.]

View the text online:
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/
Date Published: 16 July 2012
Writer:
Samuel Johnson
In Collection(s): Early Modern Drama on the Page and Stage, William Shakespeare
Keywords:
shakespeare, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, johnson
Source:
eBooks@Adelaide
Cite: The Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson at http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/preface-shakespeare-0. Published on 16 July 2012. Accessed on 31 October 2025.

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