Questions for Samuel Johnson
1. How does Johnson react to the emerging genre of the novel in the selection from The Rambler?
2. In what ways does the selection from Rasselas suggest that the author of this novel might have also been a literary critic?
3. Summarize and comment on Johnson’s discussion of metaphysical poetry in the selection from Lives of the English Poets.
4. What, according to Johnson, are the special virtues of Shakespeare’s plays?
5. Summarize and comment on Johnson’s defense of Shakespeare against the charge that his plays are flawed because they mix comic and tragic modes.
6. How does Johnson defend Shakespeare against the charge that his plays are flawed because they violate the classical unifies of action, time, and place?
7. In what ways might Johnson’s discussion of Shakespeare, however laudatory, be seen as condescending, as a sign that Johnson regards himself as living in a more advanced and enlightened era than Shakespeare’s?
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