Autograph letter signed from John Howe Chedworth to Madam [manuscript], 1802 March 18.

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Autograph letter signed from John Howe Chedworth to Madam [manuscript], 1802 March 18.

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Possible written to Elizabeth Edmead. Speaks of how Ben Jonson's image on the curtain of acting companies has been superceded by that of Shakespeare. Quotes from Garrick's prologue to The winter's tale to illustrate this point. Discusses what [Samuel] Johnson's said of the elegies of [William] Shenstone in Lives of the English poets.

4 leaves ; 23 x 19 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Chedworth, John Howe, Baron, 1754-1804

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Edmead, Elizabeth, active 1786-1832

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Shenstone, William, 1714-1763

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [The Leasowes], to J.S. Hylton, 1758 Aug. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663776 From the description of Autograph letter signed in another hand : [The Leasowes], to J.S. Hylton, [1759 Aug. 6]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662690 From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to Mrs. Southwell, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664476 From the description of Autograph...

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637

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