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Prefeace to the plays of Shakespeare : Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson, often referred to as, Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contribution to English Literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, Literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer regarded as one of the greatest figure of 18th century life and letters. Johnson wrote so many works but among them for us remembered to worthy is his dictionary and his lives of the poets. The lives of the poet are the simplest and most readable of his Literary work. He was a very good critic. He wrote essay on the play of Shakespeare. In that essay he wrote positive things as well as negative things about Shakespeare's play. Positive of Shakespearean style of writing :  In this essay Samuel Johnson wishes to justify the reliance of the Shakespeare even after so many years, he unlike author dramatic does not use any hyperbolic language for any character which makes the plot readable. Shakespeare use  very easy language so comean people can understand what's ...