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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20021222
Author:Rovee, Christopher
What injury (short of the theatres) did not Boydell's "Shakespeare Gallery" do me with Shakespeare! To have Opie's Shakespeare, Northcote's Shakespeare, light-headed Fuseli's Shakespeare, heavy-headed Romney's Shakespeare, wooden-headed West's Shakespeare (though he did the best in "Lear"), deaf-headed Reynolds's Shakespeare, instead of my, and everybody's Shakespeare. To be tied down to an authentic face of Juliet! To have Imogen's portrait!
--Charles Lamb
CHARLES LAMB'S PIQUED REMINISCENCE OF THE SHAKESPEARE GALLERY (1789-1805) calls attention to the proprietary ...
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