Scottish judge and critic. Born Edinburgh. Studied at Glasgow and
Oxford. Elected Rector of Glasgow University (1823) and became
Lord Advocate (1830). Jeffrey cofounded and served as editor of
the Edinburgh Review. His Review of Hazlitt's Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays was published in 1817.
Review of Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817)
Francis Jeffrey's Review of Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's
Plays appeared in the Edinburgh Review in August, 1917. Jeffrey
states, "This book...is written less to tell the reader what Mr.
Hazlitt knows about Shakespeare or his writings than to explain
what he feels about them- and why he feels so- and thinks that
all who love poetry should feel so likewise."
