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Johnson, Samuel
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From: A Dictionary of Shakespeare
Date: 19980101
Author:STANLEY WELLS
Johnson, Samuel
(1709–84) The great English essayist, biographer, poet, editor, lexicographer, and conversationalist first published proposals for a new edition of Shakespeare in 1745, then again in 1756, but his edition, with its famous Preface, did not appear until 1765. A useful compilation of his Shakespeare criticism is the Penguin Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare , edited by Henry Woudhuysen (1989).Dr Samuel Johnson in praise of Shakespeare; Prologue spoken by David Garrick at the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, 1747 When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes
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