 | Samuel Johnson - 1955 - 472 pages
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 | Arthur Sherbo - 1956 - 210 pages
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 | Stanley Wells - 1995 - 424 pages
...of rationalist critics such as Samuel Johnson and Bernard Shaw. Johnson notoriously complained that 'To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation'. 9 Shaw's main criticisms of the play come in a review of Henry Irving's production of 1896 which is... | |
 | 1962 - 548 pages
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 | Kenneth Muir - 1961 - 138 pages
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To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too... 
