Lectures on the English comic writers / [electronic resource] by William Hazlitt.

"A Doubleday Dolphin master"--Cover.

Reprint of the 1819 ed. published by Taylor and Hessey, London.

Introductory -- On wit and humour -- On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson -- On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, &c. -- On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh and Farquhar -- On the periodical essayists -- On the English novelists -- On the works of Hogarth -- On the comic writers of the last century.