Coleridge on Shakespeare

<p>First published in 1971.<br><br> The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's <em>Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton<br> (1856). His text of these important lectures given by Coleridge in 1811-12 has been the basis of all modern editions. This edition is based on hitherto unpublished transcripts of the lectures made by Collier when, as a young man, he attended Coleridge's lectures. R A Foakes' introduction and appendices demonstrate the extent to which Collier revised and altered Coleridge's words for the edition he published forty-five years later. This volume therefore provides a much more authoritative text of Coleridge's most important Shakespeare lectures.</em></p> 1. Introduction 2. The entries relating to Coleridge in John Payne Collier's diary, October-November 1811 3. Collier's diary: the transcripts of Lectures 1 and 2 4. The transcript of Lecture 6 5. The transcript of Lecture 7 6. The transcript of Lecture 8 7. The transcript of Lecture 9 8. The transcript of lecture 12 9. Appendix A: Collier's diary and his reports of Coleridge's conversation in 1856 10. Appendix B: Collier's manuscript diary and transcripts of the 1811-12 Lectures 11. Collier's short-hand alphabet 12. Appendix C: Collier's short-hand notebooks