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Joseph Hunter : A Disquisition on the Scene, Origin, Date, etc. of Shakespeare's Tempest

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I did not complain of the briefness of the vision [...] I do hate all those geographical statistical historical yea, & natural-historical illustrators of a great poet [...] I dont care a grain of sand on the shore whether Prospero's island was Bermuda or Lampedusa! [goes on to make more detailed criticisms of this text, and the attempts in it to identify real-life origins of Shakespeare's settings and characters]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

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