Exam 1: Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare

In Preface to Shakespeare, Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of _________.

Samuel Johnson was a writer of the

The defect or fault in Shakespeare according to Johnson is that

Johnson said that Shakespeare showed no regard to

This, therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the __ of life.

Regarding the observance of the three unities in a play, Dr. Johnson's view is that

Poetic justice is:

Johnson praises Shakespeare and comments that his drama is the mirror of __________.

Johnson said that Shakespeare often surpassed expectation or desire when he wrote

Shakespeare had no regard to the unities of

Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the

Johnson is of the opinion that Shakespeare writes without moral purpose and is more careful to please than to ___________.

According to Johnson what type of drama did Shakespeare write with much labour?

The object of all criticism according to Johnson is to make the obscure and the confused

Shakespeare's characters portrays

Shakespeare's drama reflects

According to Johnson, the plays of Shakespeare were originally classified into

Who is the 'father of English poetry', the well of English undefiled according to Arnold?

Samuel Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the

Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than __.