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

Chapter 140: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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.

70. Cf. ‘In their trinal triplicities on bye.’ The Faerie Queene, Book I. Canto I. St. 38.

71. Cf. ‘Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.’ Richard III., Act IV. Sc. 3.

72. A Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Sc. 4.

73. L’Allegro, 14 et seq.

74. By Richard Lalor Shell.

75. Dr. John Stoddart, who had left The Times early in 1817, and started The Day and New Times, afterwards known as The New Times.

76. Founded on Bickerstaffe’s Love in the City, and first produced 1781.

77. Comus, 476-7.

78. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.

79. ‘Blasted with excess of light.’ Gray, The Progress of Poesy, III. 2, 7.

80. Cowper, The Task, IV. 486.

81. Pope, Moral Essays, II. 114.

82. The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Sc. 2.

83. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Sc. 2.

84. L’Allegro, 147.

85. As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2.

86. Pope, Moral Essays, III., 309-10.

87. Cf. the essay ‘Of persons one would wish to have seen.’

88. Horace, Ars Poetica, 343.

89. Hazlitt has omitted the number. The reference is perhaps to No. 42.

90. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.

91. Paradise Lost, III. 444-6.

92. Christopher Anstey’s (1724-1805) New Bath Guide (1766).

93. Addison, The Campaign, 292.

94. Act III. Sc. 3.

95. Ibid.

96. Paradise Lost, IX. 664-678.

97. Act III. Sc. 3.

98. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 4.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Pp. 28 & 159, changed “Medecin malgrè lui” to “Médecin malgré lui”.
  2. P. 135, changed “protegée” to “protégé”.
  3. P. 143, changed “elégantes” to “élégantes”.
  4. P. 151, changed “haute litérature” to “haute littérature”.
  5. P. 166, changed “comedie larmoyante” to “comédie larmoyante”.
  6. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  7. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  8. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter.