Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie (1674): the first English translation of Aristotle's Poetics, filtered through the mind of the French neoclassical critic, René Rapin, in Rymer's translation.
A Short View of Tragedy (1693): the notorious early takedown of Othello
"On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" (1817). The alleged origin of "comic relief," the ahistorical concept projected back onto Shakspeare. Hazlitt does not use the phrase. It was created to summarize his idea. He is well known for his addiction narrative, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
His portrait is at left
The Shakespeare Papers (1856)
On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters (1885)
She was an actress and critic. Her portrait is to the left, from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)
A Study of Shakespeare (1880)
William Shakspere's Small Latine and Lesse Greek (1944)
This remains the best and most thorough account of humanist education in England.
