Looks at the critical reception to this Jacobean playwright from the early 17th to the late 19th century. Includes extensive selections from Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, with briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats.
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..