...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which...will always supply, and observation will always find. This is the basis of Johnson's high estimate of Shakespeare. "His persons act and speak by the influence...

...wrote, "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. . . . such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find." It is both fortunate and fitting that the Brown Thrasher series should now include the three early...

...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which...always supply, and observation will always find.' Celebrating Shakespeare as the universal poet, Johnson ascribed to Shakespeare's representations of...

...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which...progeny of common humanity, such as the world will 14 Johnson's eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays was announced in 1756 and published in 1765....

...Johnson's praise for Shakespeare's characters in his Preface to Shakespeare (1765) was that they were 'the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the...supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated...

...important human concerns. I believe, as did Samuel Johnson before me, that Shakespeare's characters are "the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...world will always supply, and observation will always fmd."14 His statement can be applied to O'Neill too, with some qualifying discussion. And I believe,...

...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which...supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated,...

..."characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world . . . they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...will always supply, and observation will always find" (7: 62). The world takes over from England. Hence the favor the poet has gained and kept slides into...

...Theatre in 1987. For Suzman (who would hardly dispute Dr Johnson's view of Shakespeare's characters as 'the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the...will always supply, and observation will always find' (Johnson 1968:62)), the play 'shows us a crosssection of most societies', and in the process 'addresses...

...characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world;. . . they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...will always supply, and observation will always find. ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare...