The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 11 (of 12)

by William Hazlitt

MUNDEN’S SIR PETER TEAZLE

For Hazlitt’s connection with The Times as dramatic critic see vol. VIII. p. 512. The fifteen articles reprinted for the first time in the present volume have been included upon internal evidence of Hazlitt’s authorship. No reasonable doubt can be felt with regard to any of them.

[392]. Past Ten O’clock. ‘A moderate farce’ by Dibdin, produced March 11, 1815. See Genest. In another account of Munden (vol. VIII. p. 270) Hazlitt had referred to his ‘broad shining face’ and ‘the alarming drop of his chin.’