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Samuel Johnson has been considered as one of the best critics of Shakespeare. He was the representative critic in the neoclassical period who had a balanced critical point of view. In the preface of his edition of Shakespeare, published in 1765, Johnson wrote: "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representation of general nature. . . . Shakespeare is the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life." This is Johnson's praise of Shakespeare as the poet of nature, that is the poet of human nature. So to read Shakespeare's works is to read the book of life as it is. Johnson believed that each of Shakespeare's characters is not an individual but the entire species and that he represents "general properties and large appearances."
Ben Jonson, in 1623, praised Shakespeare saying that "he was not of an age, but for all time." For Addison, Shakespeare was an inimitable poet born with "all the seeds of poetry." Nevertheless, the following praise of Johnson is the most memorable paragraph dedicated to Shakespeare. Immortal Shakespeare drew "each change of many-color'd life," "exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new .... panting Time toil'd after him vain." Johnson praised Shakespeare as the poet of nature who represented "a faithful mirror of manners and of life." However, he never forgot to criticize Shakespeare's defects.
To teach truths through delights had been the classical ideal since Horace emphasized it. It was also the basic principle of Johnson's criticism, so that Johnson criticized Shakespeare's lack of moral instruction: "He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose." This was the primary defect of Shakespeare that Johnson argued. Johnson criticized several other defects of Shakespeare: his plots, loosely and carelessly formed; his catastrophe, improbably produced or imperfectly represented; geographical and chronological improprieties; his narrations which are pompous and wearisome; his inflation of trivial sentiments and vulgar ideas; his fascination of the quibble and pun.
Samuel Johnson's dislike of Shakespeare's lack of poetic justice and excessive uses of pun and quibble reflected the taste of the neoclassical period. His view of Shakespeare was limited by his neoclassical principles, and his prejudices were shared with other critics in the period of neoclassicism. Nevertheless, his broad mind was not confined within the Aristotelian concept of the three unities, which was the most basic rule for the dramatic criticism in the period.
Johnson defended Shakespeare's disregard of the unities of time and place, pointing out the negative aspects of the esthetic of delusion. He also defended Shakespeare's "mingled drama," and his defence was based on his belief that the tragic-comedy was able to exhibit the real state of a real world and to fulfill the purpose of literature, to instruct by pleasing. He compared the works of regular writers to "a garden," accurately formed and scented with flowers, and the irregular plays of Shakespeare to "a forest, in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air." This is the praise for the varieties and comprehensions represented in Shakespeare's works.
Dryden praised Shakespeare as a poet who had "the largest and most comprehensive soul." Likewise, Johnson can be remembered as a critic who had "the most comprehensive soul" in the field of Shakespearean criticism, because he supported us to have a comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare's merits as well as his faults.
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