Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
William Hazlitt.
From a crayon drawing by W. Bewick executed in 1822.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF
WILLIAM HAZLITT
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS | 1 |
| A VIEW OF THE ENGLISH STAGE | 169 |
| DRAMATIC ESSAYS FROM ‘THE LONDON MAGAZINE’ | 381 |
| NOTES | 485 |
LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The first edition (here reprinted) was published in 1819 in one 8vo. volume(343 pp.), with the following title-page:—‘Lectures on the English ComicWriters. Delivered at the Surry Institution. By William Hazlitt. “It is avery good office one man does another, when he tells him the manner of hisbeing pleased.” Steele. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93. FleetStreet. 1819.’ The volume was printed by J. Miller, Noble Street, Cheapside.The ‘third edition’ (the second having been presumably a mere re-print of thefirst), edited by the author’s son and published by Templeman, appeared in 1841,and included some additions collected from various sources. These additions arereferred to in the notes to the present volume. The first edition was republishedby Mr. W. C. Hazlitt in Bohn’s Library in 1869, and the third edition has quiterecently been included in the Temple Classics series ‘under the immediateeditorial care of Mr. Austin Dobson’ (1900).