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The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 08 (of 12)

Chapter 113: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
By William Hazlitt
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The collection presents a series of lectures and essays that begin by defining wit, humour, and the psychology of laughter, then applies those ideas to readings of English comic writers and the stage. It contrasts Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, surveys Restoration dramatists and periodical essayists, assesses novelists' comic techniques, and interprets Hogarth’s art in relation to comic and grand styles of representation. The prose blends theoretical definition with close literary and artistic analysis, offering character sketches, stylistic judgments, and reflections on how incongruity and disrupted expectation produce comic effect.

ESSAYS ON THE ACTED DRAMA IN LONDON
CONTRIBUTED TO
THE LONDON MAGAZINE (1820)

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

These essays, contributed to The London Magazine in 1820, have never been republished in their original form. A great part of them was included in the so-called ‘second edition’ of A View of the English Stage (see the bibliographical note to that work, ante, p. 170), but the essays were cut up and re-arranged, and many passages were left out altogether. In the present edition, all the essays are printed verbatim from The London Magazine, except that a part of Essay No. VI. and the whole of Essay No. X., being plainly the work of another hand, have been omitted.