Pre-20th Century Critics on Shakespeare

shakespeare and his critics: http://shakespearean.org.uk/

Ben Johnson:

http://www.bartleby.com/27/2.html

Sam Johnson:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/johnson/samuel/preface/preface.html#preface

John Dryden:

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html

Pope's preface to Shakespeare:

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/pope-shakespeare.html

Carlyle (search for King Shakespeare): 

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1091

Tolstoy: 

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27726