Question: What british literary critic lauded Stephen Booth's essay "On the Value of Hamlet"?
Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA (29 November 1919 – 17 August 2010) was a British literary critic best known for his work "", published in 1967 (revised 2000), and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] Stephen Booth (born April 20, 1933) is a professor emeritus of English literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Marshall Scholar and studied at the University of Cambridge. He first attracted attention with his controversial 1969 essays "On the Value of Hamlet" and "An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets", in which he reread the works in a manner considerably different from contemporary Anglo-American readings. Frank Kermode praised the former essay in the New York Review of Books in 1970 as being worth several full books of Shakespeare studies. [END] 
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Frank Kermode
Frank Kermode