| 单词 | Shakspere |
| 例句 | However, I will admit William Shakespeare/Shakspere/Shaksper somewhat ruins that theory. Bolt, Trott and Spearmon: did Olympic athletes' names make them greater? 2012-08-17T09:59:01Z There is another also ascribed to him quoted in “Shakspere’s Poetry,” No. 6, Bacon Society Journal, p. William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground 2012-03-29T02:00:13.153Z Take the savage, with lower jaw projecting far in advance, and compare him with Dante, Shakspere, Milton, or Voltaire. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Page 54, Correct spelling: Shakspere's to Shakespeare's. ... startling of Shakespeare's plays, ... Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z No handwriting of Shakspere has ever been discovered except five autographs. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z The form arising from an entirely healthful and open play of the imagination, as in Shakspere's Ariel and Titania, and in Scott's White Lady, is comparatively rare. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Shakspere's 'Thank God you are rid of a knave.' The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' 2012-02-14T03:00:27.797Z William Shakspere wrote even for those who could not read, but who might learn while looking and listening. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The destiny in Shakspere's tragedies is a moral one; not an external power constraining, but an internal power impelling; working not against, but in and through the will. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z See now how differently each letter is formed in the name Shakspere, beginning with the initial: Did anybody ever write the first letter of his name so differently? Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z His renderings of poetical passages from Shelley, Shakspere, and other poets were fine beyond description. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z Shakspere, who always refers to the customs of his own time, makes Dame Quickly speak of "sitting in my Dolphin-chamber at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday in Whitsun week." Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z I devoured all Shakspere, sitting on a footstool, and reading by firelight, while the rest of the family were still at table. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z The Greek destiny, though in our way of thinking less human, is more terrible even than that of Shakspere. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z Shakspere’s first attempt to form the crooked letter is a failure, but the second passably good. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Songs, for one or more voices, from Shakspere, Byron, and Moore. e. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z Shakspere alludes to this rough building of houses even in his time:— "Imperial C�sar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away." Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Some of the highest interests of English history have been opened to the present generation by the novels of Scott, as to many a preceding one by the Plays of Shakspere. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z Shakspere, describing the effects of fright, speaks of its causing "Each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest 2011-10-13T02:00:39.777Z The mortgage from Shakspere and the other trustees is dated March 11. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z "The Parchment Library Edition of Shakspere needs no further praise." A List of Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.'s Publications (1887) 2011-10-09T02:00:29.380Z Linen was so dear that Shakspere makes Falstaff's shirts eight shillings an ell. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The underlying thought is apt to be more cultured, more bookish, so to speak; to take the form of parodies upon Shakspere and Dante, Dickens and Scott. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Shakspere's original version of "The Life and Death of King Richard Third," after which "A Grand Ballet," to conclude with Boz's "Oliver Twist." Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z But for some unaccountable reason a duplicate verbatim copy of the deed from Henry Walker is signed by William Shakspere. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z For elegance of form and beauty of typography, no edition of Shakspere hitherto published has excelled the 'Parchment Library Edition.' A List of Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.'s Publications (1887) 2011-10-09T02:00:29.380Z In the old days—the days when Shakspere lived—a bell was rung in the morning called the Pancake Bell. Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z In another issue the same paper gives a German reading from Shakspere in which it censures the Prince in much the same manner that Falstaff censured the wild Harry of Henry IV. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z They have no harmony or rhythmic volume of sound, as in Tennyson, Swinburne, Milton, and Shakspere; but they set themselves to simple melodious airs spontaneously. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Hence the improvement in the autograph; it was probably Shakspere’s second attempt to write. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z "It is refreshing to meet with an edition of Shakspere of convenient size and low price, without either notes or introductions of any sort to distract the attention of the reader." A List of Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.'s Publications (1887) 2011-10-09T02:00:29.380Z Special plays were written to amuse the people, and it is probably for that reason we have Shakspere's play called "Twelfth Night." Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z Shakspere and Goethe—the two foremost spirits which time has yet given to us—are not held to have led altogether stainless lives. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z There is only one poet in the world whose works will not suffer by reading his entire poetical productions in consecutive perusal, and that is Shakspere. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Shakspere is known to have written; we ought to add that he prefixed to the last one the following scrawl: For a long time we puzzled over this. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Shakspere must have owed the varied facts interwoven into his delineations of human character to this source. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z That is probably the reason why Shakspere called his play "A Midsummer Day's Dream," and make Puck and the other fairies play such pranks with the mortals that they found wandering out-of-doors. Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z Shakspere could not have added Bacon’s investigations to his own ‘intuitions.’ Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z But there is this distinction: the moral in Dante and Milton and Shakspere and Emerson is so garnitured with beauty that while our souls are ennobled our imaginations are gratified. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Here is one of the forged autographs of Shakspere: This is superior to any of the genuine ones, which in some degree it resembles. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z But how would it have been with a cloddish unimaginative fellow, whom nature never intended should understand Shakspere? A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z You will find it mentioned by Chaucer, Shakspere, and many another of lesser note. Holidays & Happy-Days 2011-08-27T02:00:21.840Z Moxon, that if the government were consistent in carrying out prosecutions for blasphemy—Shakspere, Milton, Byron, Shelley, Southey—might be prohibited. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z It may be doubted whether Shakspere conceived his plays in accordance with any such subdivisions. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Malone, who at first pronounced the genuine orthography to be Shakspeare, subsequently declared Shakspere to be the poet’s own mode of spelling his name beyond all doubt. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Shakspere's imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, to embody any capricious shade of thought that is uppermost in his mind.' A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Ergo, as Shakspere’s clown says, you must not fret. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z Margaret had parted from him as a serious and thoughtful boy—“a little peevish boy,” Shakspere calls him; she met him again as a hero, the King of England. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z There is no reason to suppose that Shakspere would have approved of the attempt of the editors of the folio to subdivide his plays, each into five acts. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The solution of the whole mystery is in the fact that Shakspere was unable to write or even to spell his own name. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Whoever recollects the profession of Shakspere's father, will admit that his son might be no stranger to such terms. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z It is a coincidence worth remembering, that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra terminated his mortal course in Spain on the very same day that William Shakspere died in England. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Her mother was Margaret, the gentle Queen of Scotland, her father the well-known Malcolm, of whom Shakspere has written, a mighty king, but a man who could neither read nor write. Great Englishwomen An Historical Reading Book for Schools 2011-05-23T02:00:09.167Z Many of these readers would be taken aback by the unexpected discovery that all this cutting up of Shakspere's text was the work of his commentators, with Rowe at the head of the procession. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z All the records of Shakspere’s lifetime have been hunted up and printed. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Some of the most praised conceptions of Shakspere have been traced by critics to the tritest observation. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z How scattered and unsatisfactory are the few particulars which we have of the life of our own poet William Shakspere! The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Is this the kind of thing that the Shakspere of Imogen, of Desdemona, of Queen Catherine, would put forward as the crown of his life and work? A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It was to the simple conditions of his semi-medieval theater that Shakspere adjusted himself, rude as those conditions may now appear to us who are accustomed to the sumptuous picturesqueness of our own luxuriant playhouses. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Shakspere’s daughter Judith in 1611 witnessed two instruments by making her mark. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Critics tell us, that Shakspere here fell into the conventional cant of a mechanic making skewers. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z “Allusions to Shakspere are characteristic both of Massinger and The Two Noble Kinsmen.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z They don't care for it: you never see that when we're reading one of Shakspere's genuine plays.' A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z In accepting the theater as he found it, and in availing himself of all its possibilities, such as they were, Shakspere showed his usual common sense. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Compare it with the five genuine scrawls of Shakspere. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z To admit the likelihood of all this, notwithstanding Mr. Knight's jeer at the 'wisdom of the commentators,' is rather to exalt than degrade the genius of Shakspere, who could derive exalted figures from humble sources. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Webster, in short, compared with Shakspere, reminds us somewhat of the contrast between Mantegna and Raphael. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z I do not think the evidence that Shakspere wrote all the parts that either Prof. Spalding or Mr Hickson assigns to him, at all conclusive. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z And as a first step toward the proper standpoint, we must cast out our traditional belief that Shakspere always accepted the classicist formula of five acts, proclaimed by Horace, and employed by Seneca. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Bacon required a mask, and he found it in the illiterate play-actor Shakspere. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Knight remarks:—'Philosophy, as profound as it is beautiful! says the uninitiated reader of Shakspere. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Are we to suppose that the only author he imitated or borrowed from was Shakspere? Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The list of Shakspere's works is not yet settled. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It may be doubted also whether not a few dramatists, writing later than Shakspere, would not have done well to claim the liberty he and Lope de Vega chose to exercise at will. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The likeness of Shakspere in the Folio of 1623 has frequently been called “an abominable libel on humanity.” Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Many great writers like Bacon, through policy—Burke through position, or Shakspere through versatility of genius, have written on both sides of important questions. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z A. H. B. agrees, attributing a few passages to Shakspere, notably the trial scene of Catherine. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The Two N. K. printed in 1634 as by Fletcher and Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z In spite of the greater "richness of purview, consideration, and invention" that collaboration undoubtedly bestows, the man of surpassing genius, the great master of the drama, Sophocles or Shakspere or Moli�re, works best alone. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z If there was a better likeness of Shakspere in existence why was it not reproduced in that famous Folio? Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z It was after reading this paper that Robert Browning, then the president of the New Shakspere Society, wrote his final judgment on the play which was published in the Society’s “Transactions.” Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z I have already pointed out the careful study of Shakspere which we find in Massinger, and the copious use of his imperial vocabulary. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Fletcher's burlesquing Shakspere is no argument against their having written together. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It is by the comedies and tragedies which Shakspere wrote alone that the Elizabethan stage is made glorious, and not by the dramatic romances that go under the joint names of Beaumont and Fletcher. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z It was not taken from life, and is unlike any picture of Shakspere. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z To leave a good taste in the mouth of the public, the actor-manager, Stewart Thrall, had given it a final week of Shakspere. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z This is much resented by Chaucer, Chapman, and Spenser; last of all Shakspere and Fletcher appear “with a strong party” to claim the first place. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The 2 N. K. not in the First Folio of Shakspere's Works, 1623, put forth by Shakspere's fellows. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Centuries later Shakspere laid violent hands on Italian tales and on English romances. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The most familiar pictures of Shakspere are very different from either of these, and generally far more intellectual and refined. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Great Shakspere!" said Thrall to himself; "what a face for the balcony scene! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z I can imagine a being who would prefer Gounod's Romeo and Juliet to Shakspere's. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The Table of Contents of the First Folio of Shakspere's Works is of less worth. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z We are now so accustomed to blank verse in Shakspere's plays, tragic and comic, that we accept it almost without noticing it. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The first published poem of Shakspere, so far as known, was “Venus and Adonis,” in 1593. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z At no sparing of expense to himself—the entire cost was upward of £100,000—Boydell commissiond some of the best artists and engravers of the time to portray scenes from all of Shakspere's plays. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z A. H. B. thinks that Shakspere wrote additions for the revival of an old play, Palamon and Arsett, which came into the hands of Fletcher and Massinger after the death of Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z It lets in two Plays that are not Shakspere's. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z But this is almost equally true of the supreme leaders of dramatic art, Sophocles, Shakspere, and Moli�re. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z But this only makes the tangle worse, which began with Shakspere’s ostensible authorship; and the last despairing words of the astute un-raveller are: “All is supposition, the mystery is insoluble.” Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Paralel to this statement in the letters is the discussion in the essay of the valu of the comedies of Shakspere over his tragedies as material for illustration. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Macaulay ascribes it to Shakspere and Fletcher, “perhaps revised by Massinger.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Pericles is not in the volume, and yet is in part Shakspere's. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Another of Shakspere's tragedies has become almost impossible in our modern playhouses, because the stage-manager does not dare to do without the spectacular effects that the story seems to demand. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z In 1872 we first read Nathaniel Holmes’s “Authorship of Shakspere;” since then we have never entertained a reasonable doubt that Bacon was the author of the Plays. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Her book needs supplementation thru a study of the Romantic Shakspere criticism, written from the English point of view. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Massinger has interpolated his own work in some of the Shakspere passages. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Strong internal evidence will prove it in part Shakspere's. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z His mind was fixed on Goethe and on Schiller, altho his vision also included Shakspere, upon whom the two German poets had more or less modeled themselves. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Herbert was sixteen years younger than Shakspere, and nineteen years younger than Bacon. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z In this series, where genius is excluded from the outset, Tieck expects a strict adherence to fact, to verisimilitude, and the correct interpretation of Shakspere must be insisted on. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z This fact has been recently brought before the public by Mr. Bayfield in connexion with Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's work specially fit for the Internal Evidence test. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z IV The fact is that Shakspere was a professional playwright, and that he had no merely academic theories. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Of course no one will date their composition as late as 1609, when Shakspere was forty-five and Bacon forty-eight. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Tieck also points out the spiritual difference between Shakspere and the "famous West," a distinct addition to the matter in the Anzeigen. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Are there any points in which Massinger can hold his own against Shakspere? Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's.Shakspeare's versification is broken and full of pauses, he is sparing of double terminations to his verses, and has a marked fondness for ending speeches or scenes with hemi-stitches. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Indeed, these plays are not even among the more important pieces of Shakspere and Moli�re, and the reputation of the authors would be no lower if these plays had never come into existence. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z But in 1599, when Shakspere was only 35, this very verse was published as his in the “Passionate Pilgrim,” where Sonnet 138 appears as number one. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Awkwardness and violence, anything that savord of "affectation and bombast," where in Shakspere "power and energy" are found, met Tieck's disapproval. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z We know far less of him than we do of Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The likeness to Shakspere in The Two Noble Kinsmen, and the repetitions of him, are likely to be by him. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Sometimes Shakspere has been smothered in scenery, and sometimes the art of the actor has been subordinated to the art of the scene-painter. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Before he could have heard it claimed that Shakspere did not write the plays he said that Bacon might have taken the highest rank as a poet. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z But even for the comedies, some of his observations are very just and show that he could interpret Shakspere with sense and precision. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Like Shakspere, he occasionally crowds too much into the fifth act—for instance, in The Unnatural Combat. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Milton slow, Shakspere rapid, Milton's conception was comparatively slow, and allowed him time for deliberate expression: Shakspeare's was rapid to excess, and hurried his words after it. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Not Shakspere himself has so elevated mankind, raised his moral standard, or enlarged his conceptions of the universe, as have the great lyrical poets. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Aside from innumerable parallels in the works of Bacon and Shakspere there is much external evidence. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Tieck's personal regard for Shakspere, which amounted to a real passion, was entirely wanting. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Anne's remark to the old lady, “Come, you are pleasant,”297 is in Massinger's manner, but he may have taken the turn from Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z A fragment from another beautiful address in the first scene is equally characteristic and less faulty:— Shakspere, not Fletcher. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z They were close to nature, and as primitive in their love-affairs as the heroines of Shakspere. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z In 1599 “The Passionate Pilgrim,” a collection of twenty-one sonnets, songs, etc., was published with the name of W. Shakspere on the title page. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z As an interpretation of Shakspere, it is no more than on a plane with Colly Cibber. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Perhaps Shakspere and Fletcher touched up an old anonymous play. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's truths and their imagery glorify one another. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The “legitimate drama,” and even Shakspere, flourished in California. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The only question in regard to the authorship of this poem is, whether Shakspere or “Ignoto” wrote it. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Interpretation of Shakspere takes precedence over art, and even Boydell places the painter below the poet and speaks disparagingly of the ability of the former to understand and to portray. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z In general it can be said that Shakspere abstains from the use of provincial dialects, as characteristic of his dramatical persons.... Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's conceits and quibbles.His judgment often fails to perform its part, and he is guilty of conceit and quibble, not merely in his comic vein, but in his most deeply tragical situations. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z "Ah!" says Villiam, hastily assuming the attitude in which Shakspere generally appears in his pictures. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Spenser praises Essex in one of the Sonnets prefixed to his “Faery Queen,” which antedates the Sonnets of Shakspere. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Tieck came to the work with a good first-hand knowledge of Shakspere and this lessens the juvenile and jejune qualities of his work. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z Mr. Arthur Underhill, in Shakspere's England, Vol. i, No. xiii., decides that Shakspere's “knowledge of law was neither profound nor accurate.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z In the same scene one knight says to another,— Shakspere metaphor. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z One evening they were to perform together—Adam had often heard of them—he admired Shakspere—his curiosity was excited—he yielded to the solicitations of his companions, and accompanied them to Covent Garden. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 And by the way, poor neglected Shakspere has but a single specimen there—“On a day, alack a day”— taken from “Love’s Labor Lost.” Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z "Honest, honest, Iago!" said he, quoting Shakspere, 'If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee.' Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 The play has at once the dignity of an early period and the complexity of style with which we are familiar in Shakspere's later manner. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z And afterwards their lady-love, listening to the noise of the fight, speaks thus:— Shakspere metaphor. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z I bade fair to become an actual representative of Shakspere's apothecary; and would assuredly have thought myself 'passing rich with forty pounds a-year.' Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 And now what shall we say in regard to Marlowe’s ostensible authorship of a popular song, which was attributed to Shakspere in 1599? Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Then why should not Shakspere—the supremest in all the “tide of time”—not have the widest and most far-reaching vision of the wonderful258 attainments and powers of the perfected man. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The fourth scene of the second act is a great law-court Scene, and Massinger has several such, in which he may be copying Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The Two Noble Kinsmen is rich in personifications which must be Shakspere's. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z "Time and the hour," says Shakspere, "will wear through the roughest day;" and so they will, also, through the merriest night, as the joyous party of whom we are speaking now soon found. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 In the same year Shakspere’s name first appeared in print as an author. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z Shakspere had lived Hamlet, and that is why he so vitally touches every human soul. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Massinger is a follower of Shakspere and Fletcher, though we can trace in some of his tragedies the influence of Webster and Tourneur. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z In bits of the Two Noble Kinsmen several of Shakspere's distinctive qualities are often combin'd. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Whatever countenance Shakspere received from royalty, he owed to his friends Essex and Southampton; and Spenser, who has sung the praises of the queen in “strains divine,” died in neglect and poverty. Lives of Celebrated Women Parallels are found in Bacon and Shakspere with almost every sentiment and expression in these lines. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z This sublime inspiration was almost the last outburst of the mighty genius of Shakspere, and is a fitting crown of glory. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 “They are more correct,” he says, “and grammatical than Shakspere, and appear to have had a more competent knowledge of other languages, which gave them a more accurate idea of their own.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The scene is a dialogue between them, occupied in lamentations and repinings over the dissolute manners of their native Thebes. has the characteristics of Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Shakspere created that land as the possession of each of us. How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest Bearing in mind that Bacon is three years and three months older than Shakspere, we will now parallel their lives by successive years. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z It is interesting to note that Shakspere has given to him almost the identical powers of the Man of Nazareth! The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 This is interesting, because we shall see later on that Massinger was a devoted admirer and imitator of Shakspere in thought, device, and expression. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Act I. scene iii. has the characteristics of Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Shakspere wanted to weld them into a more surprising fable. How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest Shakspere at 21 is still living at Stratford, the father of three children—two of them twins. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z The thoughts that Hamlet voices had passed through Shakspere’s brain, and the wonderful powers manifested by Prospero had been apprehended by his own prophetic vision. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Passages which offend can nearly always, as in Shakspere, be omitted without damaging the course of the plot. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The maiden's admiration of the prisoners is then exhibited. and is very dull: it is not Shakspere's. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z When Shakspere began to write plays, the stage was well used to romance. How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest Shakspere at 22 is probably still at Stratford, though Mr. White presumes he has become connected with the London stage this year, or perhaps a little later. Bacon and Shakspere 2012-03-14T02:00:24.313Z In the manifestation of soul-power we first perceive the true257 greatness of Prospero and the heights to which Shakspere’s own soul had risen, for “the stream cannot rise higher than its source.” The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 The simplest explanation of the double ascription in the quarto of 1634 is to suppose that Shakspere helped Fletcher in some way. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z No leap to the end, and off with a fresh bound, like Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z But whatever story Shakspere found, it is my notion that he forgot most of it. How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest Mr Simon Silky was a reader of the Beauties of Shakspere. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 Shakspere, Milton, and Cromwell shew what of genius, and power, and divine aim, at one time the middle classes contained. About London Even Shakspere seldom tries to do this,211 and it was too hard a task for his pupil. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The sharp and spirited quarrel between the Kinsmen, not Shakspere's. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Where was Shakspere and what was he doing? How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions," thought he, recurring once more to the Beauties of Shakspere. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 This is the game Shakspere alludes to in "Love's Labour's Lost," when he says, "And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Let us now turn to some miscellaneous points of interest in Massinger; and first, let us note his imitation of Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Arcite's first speech has Shakspere's clear images, and familiar dress, nervous expression, &c. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z But this story no more than Shakspere’s own work is the exclusive property of the residents of one particular spot. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison Shakspere was quoted at random, but usually wrongly. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Of deer, Shakspere knew much—too much for his own comfort. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks We find blushing in the play once or twice,296 but then we find it elsewhere in Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Arcite brings provisions for his kinsman, and the means of removing his fetters, and departs to fetch the armour. is probably Fletcher's, and not Shakspere's. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Then he makes extracts from Harman about the rogues, among whom, by statute, are “plaiers and minstrels,” Shakspere and his fellows, etc. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison We have had, plentiful as French eggs, translations of facile, delicate French into clumsy, hobbling British; and now, as some amends, we have Bottom translated by Phelps from dull tradition into purest airiest Shakspere. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) An old desk which came from the Grammar School and stood there in Shakspere's time is shown at the birthplace. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Are we to suppose that no one imitated Shakspere except Massinger? Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Act V. is Shakspere's, In the Fifth Act we again feel the presence of the Master of the Spell. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The book is full of interest, not only to every Shakspere student, but to every reader of English history, every man who has the least care for his forefathers’ lives. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison Now this, we take to be the true, breathing notion of Shakspere, and this notion has entered the belief of the actor, and become a living thing. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) For the next five years nothing is known about Will Shakspere. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks The same remark applies to the friars of Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z In the following lines Theseus is pleading with Emilia for her presence in the lists:— Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Even morsels of the work have never been attempted until the issue by the “New Shakspere Society,” a dozen years ago, of Dr. Furnivall’s careful condensed edition of Harrison’s introduction to Holinshed. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison But if mind consists in vibrations, the abilities of a Shakspere are no great shakes; therefore we cannot accept such a theory of the constitution of the Footman which is wanted in a Clergyman's family. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) And we know that Shakspere, like many less wise people, was fond of "ripe red cherries." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks There are, secondly, “the structural and psychological imperfections of the work”; thirdly, “the tendency to unnecessary coarseness of language”; fourthly, “the feeble imitation of Shakspere”; fifthly, “the frequent similarity to Massinger's acknowledged writings.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's external qualities in the Two Noble Kinsmen. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The complete Holinshed was issued one year before the Armada year, two years before Shakspere’s first play was printed. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison She must be a sort of musical Shakspere—than whom nobody else ever succeeded in giving illustrations of Phrenology, or the philosophy of human nature, at large. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The sheep-shearing feast, which came when roses were out on the hedges and in the gardens, must have been a merry and important time for the Shakspere boys. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks We allow that in these two plays Webster comes nearer to Shakspere than any of his compeers. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere doesn't imitate himself in character as he does in style. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Suffice to say, well or ill jointed, the story here told plucks the heart out of the mystery of the cradle of the English race at the exact period of Shakspere’s youthful manhood. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison These specimens of pauses in Shakspere's verse indicate the natural varieties of dramatic form. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History You know that Shakspere says 'Conscience doth make cowards of us all.' St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Shakspere's plays are marked by many faults of construction, taste, and detail; he who never blotted a line should certainly, as Ben Jonson remarked, have blotted a good many. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere could not have turned his Ophelia into the Jailer's daughter of The Two Noble Kinsmen. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Still, Harrison took more kindly to the common sort than Shakspere did in his plays.—F. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison The use of rimed couplets in Shakspere's dramas is especially characteristic of his earlier work. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But I fancy that lessons bore a very small part in Will Shakspere's education. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks The Shakspere play All is True may have perished in the “Globe” fire of 1613. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere took old stories; new poets new ones. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z No such fairy poetry existed anywhere in English literature before Shakspere. Folk-lore of Shakespeare These two specimens, perhaps the favorites of as many readers as any which could be chosen, must serve to represent the sonnets of Shakspere. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And perhaps it was from this very peddler that Will Shakspere bought the pair of gloves which, after the fashion of the day, he gave to Anne Hathaway at their betrothal. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks If, however, the “Shaksperian” parts be deemed unworthy of Shakspere, why assign them to Massinger, whose work they do not resemble? Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere belongs to the older class of dramatists. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z We put Shakspere on the stage in a way that would astonish Shakspere himself: but we have no Shakspere. The London Pulpit It will be observed that while Shakspere's heroic verse is usually fairly regular, with not very many run-on lines, it yet differs in quality from that of satires. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But in Shakspere's day bear-baiting was a popular and refined amusement. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Imitation of Shakspere is prominent in The Emperor of the East. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere chose the story of the Two Noble Kinsmen. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Meanwhile her education had been completed by Shakspere. Eden An Episode Prose is used by Richardson because his novel professedly resembles a situation of real life; metre is needed by Shakspere to make the ideal life of his drama real to the imagination. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There was, however, one amusement which, from his earliest years, must have delighted little Will Shakspere above all others—I mean a visit from the players. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Massinger, like Shakspere, fell into disfavour after the Restoration, when Beaumont and Fletcher carried everything before them. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere certain to have first studi'd, and been influenct by, our old narrative poets,Poetry had reached a vigorous youth, history was in its infancy, philosophy had not come into being. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z No," she heard Jones say, "I have every reason to doubt that Shakspere was the author of Hamlet. Eden An Episode Shakspere: As You Like It, 57*; blank verse of, 223 f.; English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But during part of Shakspere's school days the schoolroom was under repair; and boys and master—Walter Roche by name—migrated for a while to the Guild Chapel next door. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks Both frequently imitate Shakspere; and both repeat themselves continually, though in different ways. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere, for his stories and form, left his own time, and delighted in the past. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Shakspere could have written nothing so divinely perfect to him. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign No attempt can be made to represent adequately the blank verse of Shakspere. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History "There must have been such wells as long ago as Shakspere's time." St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks If anyone still holds that Shakspere wrote the whole play, he might plausibly take the line that Shakspere was experimenting in the new style and metre of his popular young rival Fletcher. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Summary of reasons why Shakspere chose the plot of Two Noble Kinsmen. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It tells her a whole lot about me, and makes her think I know Shakspere by heart. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures In other words, Shakspere's own development represents, in a sort of miniature, that of the history of dramatic blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History "How do you know?" asked Daisy, who was sure that Shakspere lived a great while ago, though she could not have told when. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks I cannot prove that Fletcher did not invite Massinger to help him in such an enterprise, and I know how fond Massinger was of studying Shakspere. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere seen in the simplicity of the plot. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Lyon was well informed in history and general literature; was a devoted student of the Bible and Shakspere, and wrote well and forcibly. The Struggle for Missouri This play was professedly an imitation of Shakspere, and the passage here quoted is a paraphrase of one in Antony and Cleopatra, II. ii. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Shakspere's beautiful apostrophe to the latter god-like attribute in the "Merchant of Venice," would have been flat nonsense in the estimation of Watty. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Doubtless, it is natural to wish that each play of Shakspere should excel its predecessor, and to be unwilling to confess that he ended his career with something that was not supremely excellent. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's plays with no plot: Some of his plays, especially his comedies, have actually no plot, and those, too, the very dramas in which his genius has gained some of its most mighty victories. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z About this, see Furnivall, Introduction to the "Leopold Shakspere," p. xvi. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Shakspere's blank verse doubtless exerted a good influence on the quality of Dryden's. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Only, please, Mr. or Mrs. Philanthropist, don't let it be Shakspere, or Ruskin, or Walter Pater. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself I shall consider myself happy if I persuade some of my readers to make the acquaintance of Massinger's plays.509 We have lately been celebrating the tercentenary of Shakspere's death. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z In the plots of Shakspere's Tragedies, details and character are the main things. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Who can declare what is the single moral contained in the "Oedipus" of Sophocles, the "Hamlet" of Shakspere, the "Tartufe" of Molière? Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews Homer was, it is said, a beggar; Shakspere an illiterate wool-comber; Milton skilled in all human learning. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. They forget that Shakspere, and Ruskin, and all the rest of the really true and great literary crew, are infinite bores to every-day people. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself The story is taken from a novel in Don Quixote, which appeared in 1611, five years before Shakspere's death. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's handling seen in certain scenes of The Two Noble Kinsmen. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The Shakspere autograph which was sold on 24 May, 1841, came again into the market, and was bought on 19 May, for £145, by the Corporation of the City of London. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The thought links itself on to another, mayhap less sound:—Do not the minds of men of exalted genius, such as Homer, Milton, Shakspere, seem to partake of some of the qualities of infinitude? My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Complete Concordance to Shakspere: being a verbal Index to all the passages in the dramatic works of the Poet. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed Shakspere disguises the Duke as a friar in Measure for Measure, II., Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The keeping close to the leading motives, is Shakspere's doing. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z At the same sale was sold “the Shakspere Cup,” made from the mulberry tree said to have been planted by Shakspere, carved on the sides with a medallion of Shakspere, and his Coat of Arms. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign Add all the common minds together that the world ever produced, and the mind of a Shakspere towers over the whole, in all the grandeur of unapproachable infinity. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Here it must be said that the Achilles' heel of Henry Shakspere Knight lay in his stomach. A Great Man A Frolic He goes on to say that there is a tradition that Shakspere wrote it—“in the time of his retirement from the stage.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Shakspere's conception of character, and method of developing it. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z F.S.A., the well-known Shaksperian scholar, whose varied contributions to literature have been crowned by the production of his folio edition of Shakspere—a work still in progress. A Walk from London to Fulham Homer, Milton, Shakspere, were perhaps men of equal powers. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. And in the third place there was Henry Shakspere. A Great Man A Frolic This surely can not be because Shakspere did not write of the Bank of St. George or because Genoa has no Rialto. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose Shakspere's art in subduing all The Two Noble Kinsmen to one Friendship. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It must have been very comical to see Shakspere holding stirrups like an ostler, or performing the part of the Ghost, in his own play of Hamlet. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Shakspere, who says all things better than anyone else, makes Othello find in the fatal handkerchief "confirmation strong as proofs from holy writ." A Short History of Spain He had been assisted in the endeavour by the publication of an article in a monthly review, entitled 'The Art of Henry Shakspere Knight.' A Great Man A Frolic He occupied his first hour in slyly flipping wet-paper wads at a picture of Shakspere pinned above him on the wall. The Biography of a Prairie Girl The duty of our reverence for Shakspere, the Star of Poets, being intelligent. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The rest shall be left to the critical discernment of those persons who may be attracted by the heading of this Note—Dryden on Shakspere. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc Clarence, too—false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, as Shakspere truly calls him—had offered to betray Warwick. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII In the newspapers they are invariably referred to as Mr. Shakspere Knight's 'pretty children' or Mrs. Shakspere Knight's 'charming twins.' A Great Man A Frolic Morally, Shakspere's Caliban was insensible to kindness, had bestial passions, was cowardly, vengeful, superstitious. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Does Shakspere's imagination mean the grandeur or loveliness he has given some of his characters? A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z When Johnson wrote his preface to Shakspere, he quoted the first of the above extracts to prove that the plays were once admired without the aid of comment. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc No essay would be complete without quotations from Shakspere. The World I Live In Mrs. Knight exulted in everything, but principally in the prospective sight of her son at large on the platform delivering Shakspere to a hushed, attentive audience of other boys' parents. A Great Man A Frolic Three of Browning's poems, "At the Mermaid," "House," and "Shop," refer with more or less explicitness to Shakspere. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Shakspere's contemporaries don't imitate Nature, they distort it, give Passion, and no Reason. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z In 1769 Garrick placed the same extract at the head of his collection of undeniable prose-testimonies to the genius of Shakspere. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc Not all Shakspere's great passages about the hand are tragic. The World I Live In Projecting from the keystone of the arch was a wrought-iron sign bearing a portrait in copper, and under the portrait the words 'Ye Shakspere Head.' A Great Man A Frolic "Shop" is an indirect protest against the assumption that Shakspere wrote mainly for money, caring merely for the material success of his work. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Ben Jonson as broad in aim as Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Johnson afterwards pronounced it to be "a perpetual model of encomiastic criticism;" and Malone quoted it as an admirable character of Shakspere. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc I gathered from their conversation that they were Cotton Mather and William Shakspere. The World I Live In Mr. Onions Winter rose and walked to the window in order, apparently, to drink his fill of the statue of Shakspere in the middle of the square. A Great Man A Frolic The last stanza in "House" contains a quotation from Wordsworth's "Scorn not the Sonnet" to the effect that in his sonnets Shakspere revealed the most intimate facts of his life. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Shakspere's power lay in subordinating Fancy and Passion to Intellect. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z His remains were placed in what is called "the Poet's Corner," wherein lie buried Shakspere, Milton, Dryden, Thompson, Sheridan, Gray. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Shakspere replied that the witches had already suffered enough at the hands of commentators. The World I Live In He held that Shakspere, besides being our greatest poet, was the greatest moral teacher that England has ever produced. A Great Man A Frolic Ben Jonson said that Shakspere "wanted art"; the highest appellate court decided that "Lear" was a greater work than Euripides or Sophocles ever produced. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Shakspere is true to nature in Poetry's way. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z A Handel, like a Homer or a Milton, a Shakspere or a Dante, is only once given to a nation. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Something of the same feeling, I sometimes think, underlies his respect for Shakspere. Appearances Being Notes of Travel I was brought up on Shakspere,' said Mr. Knight, smiling. A Great Man A Frolic Old Mother Wit and Nature gave Shakspere and Fletcher all they have; In Spencer and in Jonson, art Of slower Nature got the start. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Characters showing this mental strife, are specially dear to Shakspere. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Compare the following selection with Shakspere’s “Tempest,” Act I., scene 1 and 2, to “Ariel, thy charge.” Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader These, it is true, have far less importance than in a drama of Shakspere. Appearances Being Notes of Travel May the Eighth.—To-night, being minded to seek relaxation in literature, I picked up my Tasso, but, soon tiring of the Latin, I exchanged it for Shakspere's "Romeo and Juliet." Fibble, D.D. Dennis says Shakspere paid no heed to poetic justice ... "the good and bad perishing promiscuously in the best of his tragedies, so that there can be either none or very weak instruction in them." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant The highest art made Shakspere insert his reflective passages in his plays. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It is said to have suggested to Shakspere the scene of the storm and hurricane in his “Tempest.” Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader And how effective such "unnaturalness" can be in evoking natural passion only those will understand who have realised how ineffective for that purpose is our "naturalness" when we are concerned with Sophocles or Shakspere. Appearances Being Notes of Travel As for my emotions when I paused at the graveside of William Shakspere—ah, sir, a more gifted pen than mine were required to describe my sensations at this hallowed moment. Fibble, D.D. Even the great Samuel Johnson said that Shakspere "sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without any moral purpose." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Are Johnson, &c. right in condemning Shakspere's morality. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z At the reign of Elizabeth, Scott’s “Kenilworth,” the non-historical plays of Shakspere, as he lived at that epoch, Bacon’s Essays, and others. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader For Shakspere's father owned two houses at the time of the son's birth; in which of the two he lived at this time we can but guess. Stories of Authors, British and American It purports to be the seal-ring of William Shakspere, and was found March 16, 1810, by a labourer’s wife, in the mill close adjoining Stratford-on-Avon churchyard. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture "Richard II.," and "Coriolanus" conform to the rules of dramatic art which Shakspere had so defiantly violated. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Most of Shakspere's contemporaries made pleasure the law of their heroes' lives. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z "Sleep, Brave Tragedian, Shakspere, sleep alone Thy unmolested rest, unshared cave Possess as Lord, not tenant to thy grave," etc. Shakespeare's Family Shakspere wrote pure and lofty poetry because his was a pure and lofty nature. Stories of Authors, British and American We have already adverted to a similar ring worn by one of Shakspere’s fellow townsmen. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture The result is that he counts among the lines mended by Shakspere those that differ from those in the "Contention" only by a particle or a conjunction. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Shakspere's morality not of the loftiest, not like Milton's and That his morality is of the loftiest sort cannot be asserted. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z What needs my Shakspere for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in pilèd stones? Shakespeare's Family Milton read Shakspere, and in the lines which he wrote upon him in 1630, there seems to be the due throb of transcendent admiration.... Stories of Authors, British and American It is unlikely that a small trader like Smith should wear a heavy gold ring, like this which claims to be Shakspere’s. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture If it be asked why Shakspere's friends did not claim the authorship for him, it is answered that as soon as another edition appeared, they did. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Shakspere right in letting evil prevail, so long as he shows it evil. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Nevertheless, full as Dutch literature is of worthy, earnest thought, it is not in man to conceive a Dutch Shakspere. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. What would we not give to be able to relate a half-dozen good anecdotes about Shakspere? Stories of Authors, British and American "There is, perhaps no edition in which the works of Shakspere can be read in such luxury of type, and quiet distinction of form, as this." English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. It is difficult to think of Shakspere "bombasting out a blank verse" like this. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Shakspere's view of life the fittest to give us to the truth. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Only the genius of Shakspere seized the grandeur of a social organization which was still one with that of Rome and Athens and Tyre. Stray Studies from England and Italy We suppose he lived in the Henley Street house, for it was the better of the two houses and the Shakspere family was prospering when William was born. Stories of Authors, British and American Mr. Fuller did not consider it important that a child should have juvenile books and Margaret's light reading consisted of Shakspere, Cervantes, and Molière. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies In it there are distinct traces of Shakspere's influence. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Are you convinc't that Shakspere wrote much of The Two Noble Kinsmen? A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z However that might be, the fact stands that Shakspere did about 1604 reproduce Montaigne as we have seen; and it remains to consider what the reproduction signifies, as regards Shakspere's mental development. Montaigne and Shakspere We are led into the old Grammar School which Shakspere in all probability attended. Stories of Authors, British and American She gives an interesting account of her discovery of Shakspere at the age of eight. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies "Titus Andronicus" is a "tragedy of blood" written by Shakspere, according to the highest authority, when he was twenty-three or twenty-four years of age. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Shakspere's part in The Two Noble Kinsmen, is but a sketch; yet it's better than some of his finisht works. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It is clear that Shakspere must have thought much and critically of the methods and the utterance of his co-rivals in literary art, as he did of the methods of his fellow-actors. Montaigne and Shakspere After years of labor the scholars of the world have scraped together enough definite information to make the Life of Shakspere, as Mr. Raleigh puts it, "assume the appearance of a scrap-heap of respectable size." Stories of Authors, British and American This is from a girl of seventeen living on the edge of the northern wilderness, and she is also reading Shakspere. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies If Shakspere imitated Kyd in "Titus," from such stuff as this, he was surely wise in his "sluggish avoidance of needless invention." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant The Two Noble Kinsmen ought to be in every 'Shakspere's Works.' A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Whether Shakspere was directly indebted to Seneca," he writes, "is a question as difficult as it is interesting. Montaigne and Shakspere What do we know about the life of Shakspere? Stories of Authors, British and American In the grammar of literature what is the feminine of Homer, of Shakspere, of Goethe, of Hugo? The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 "Paradise Lost" seems to Professor Wendell "almost superhuman," but when any suggestion of transcendent power is applied to Shakspere, it assumes an "unnecessary miracle." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Now here we have a play founded on a poem, the original delicate and noble, where the other is coarse and trivial; and we ask, 'Was this Shakspere's way of treating his originals?' A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Such a voice, speaking at Shakspere's ear in an English nearly as racy and nervous as the incomparable old-new French of the original, was in itself a revelation. Montaigne and Shakspere We do not know the day of Shakspere's birth. Stories of Authors, British and American He seems to have worked this out upon the piano, improvising it piece by piece as he became excited in reading Shakspere's comedy. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations And so it appears that Professor Wendell applies one definition of the word "imitation" to Shakspere, another to Milton. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant It seems to me that a thought so cunning is out of character with Juliet—certainly would have been felt as a stain on Shakspere's Juliet. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z This fact of Montaigne's peculiar influence on other spirits, comparatively considered, may make it easier for some to conceive that his influence on Shakspere could be so potent as has been above asserted. Montaigne and Shakspere Artists have painted from imagination the picture of the boy Shakspere. Stories of Authors, British and American There was something of Shakspere's quickness and elegance in Willibert's methods; but Cotton Mather had the advantage in learning and in weight of argument. Days Off And Other Digressions If Shakspere found chronicle plays in the theatre, and transformed them into the most vivid and truthful history ever written, "those lesser origins become a matter of mere curiosity," and the charge of imitation fails. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant That Shakspere deliberately omitted this, is known by one slight reference. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z In this respect Shakspere stood apart from his rivals, with their merely literary training. Montaigne and Shakspere How different the warm and tender relations between Shakspere and his children! Stories of Authors, British and American There is just as little of the wide sympathy with all that is human which is so lovable in Chaucer and Shakspere. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 But this indictment against Shakspere is made more definite in form, and may therefore be more conclusively answered. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant With anything like levelling aspirations Shakspere had clearly no sympathy. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Here the thought diverges, Shakspere making it his own as he always does, and altering its aim; but the language is curiously similar. Montaigne and Shakspere The author of the Essays of Elia and Tales Founded on the Plays of Shakspere worked for the greater part of his life in the employ of the Honorable East India Company. Stories of Authors, British and American Dealing as Milton does with subjects the most awful and mysterious that poet ever chose, he is never troubled by the obstinate questionings of invisible things which haunted the imagination of Shakspere. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 If he is right,—and I believe him so,—the relation commonly thought to have existed between them and Shakspere is precisely reversed. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant In fact I would say the play is not mainly Shakspere's because of its un-Shaksperean depth. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z In the case of Shakspere we cannot be absolutely certain either way. Montaigne and Shakspere I think it is Sidney Lee who says that the only thing that remains as it was in Shakspere's time is the cellar. Stories of Authors, British and American He followed Corneille but he was haunted by memories of "the divine Shakspere." History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Here the grave accusation is distinctly made that Shakspere imitated Beaumont and Fletcher, and to support it, reference is made to one man only, Professor Thorndike, his pupil and disciple. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Another argument against Shakspere's responsibility for the whole play is the manner in which the minor characters are introduced and the underplot managed. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z In the fifth section the idea is worded in a fashion that could have suggested Shakspere's utterance of it; and he might easily have met with some citation of the kind. Montaigne and Shakspere These are the facts in the records of Shakspere's life. Stories of Authors, British and American But, for the most part, the temperaments that inclined to the worship of the Muses sought solace in Chaucer, Shakspere, and Milton while the later ones were winning their way. A Little Girl in Old Boston What those traces are we are not informed, but he assures us that "they have not led to any careful investigation of Shakspere's indebtedness to his contemporaries." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant But Shakspere is peculiar in the skill with which he interweaves the two plots and brings together the principal and the inferior personages. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z This must always be insisted on as the special psychological characteristic of Shakspere. Montaigne and Shakspere Could a soul so sensitive as Shakspere's live in such an atmosphere and not be influenced by it? Stories of Authors, British and American As lightning is to light, so is a Cromwell to a Shakspere. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 This "natural expectation" is not disappointed, in Professor Thorndike's opinion, by a comparison between some of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays and those he calls the "romances" of Shakspere,—"Cymbeline," "The Tempest," and "Winter's Tale." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant As far as my own recollection serves, I do not believe that in any play undoubtedly Shakspere's we have a single instance of an underplot like that of the Gaoler's Daughter. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z However all that may have been, we find Shakspere, after his period of pessimism, viewing life in a spirit which could be expressed in terms of Montaigne's philosophy. Montaigne and Shakspere But I deny that Shakspere was profligate, and in making this denial I need not prove the impeccability of Shakspere. Stories of Authors, British and American "Home-keeping youths," says Shakspere in words that mark the time, "have ever homely wits"; and a tour over the Continent became part of the education of a gentleman. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 In the first place, it is assumed as probable that Shakspere and Fletcher wrote "The Two Noble Kinsmen," and that Fletcher wrote part of "Henry VIII." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant If this underplot is due to Shakspere, why is there none like it in all his works? A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z But that retirement, rounding with peace the career of manifold and intense experience, is a main fact in Shakspere's life, and one of our main clues to his innermost character. Montaigne and Shakspere Shakspere was no bar-room brawler, no prodigal spender of time and substance in riotous living. Stories of Authors, British and American Shakspere's conception of Caliban, like the questioning of Montaigne, marks the beginning of a new and a truer, because a more inductive, philosophy of human nature and human history. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 The only external evidence that Shakspere wrote any portion of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" is the quarto of 1634. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Is this the way in which a play partly written by Shakspere—then near the close of his successful stage career—would be spoken of on its production? A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z But he who can read Shakspere might be expected to divine that it needed, among other things, even some such discipline as that to give his spirit its strange universality of outlook. Montaigne and Shakspere It is also well to keep in mind that our paucity of definite documentary records is not characteristic of Shakspere alone. Stories of Authors, British and American He became successively Solicitor and Attorney-General; the year of Shakspere's death saw him called to the Privy Council; he verified Elizabeth's prediction by becoming Lord Keeper. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 German criticism has taken up the subject with minute care, and, we may assert with confidence, has settled beyond doubt that Shakspere never wrote a single line of "The two Noble Kinsmen." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Nor does the part authorship account for the omission, as plays with less of Shakspere's undoubted authorship are there included. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z In no case is the difficulty greater than in that of Shakspere. Montaigne and Shakspere But to us the great fact in the life of Shakspere is that he has given us his masterpieces. Stories of Authors, British and American It is in this peaceful and gracious close that the life of Shakspere contrasts most vividly with that of his greatest contemporary. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 But it was important for Professor Thorndike to show what he calls a "probability" that Shakspere and Fletcher collaborated, in order to establish his theory that Fletcher "influenced" Shakspere. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Then the publisher, knowing or hearing that Shakspere had a share, printed his name, after Fletcher's, as part dramatist. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z He admits that nothing else in Bruno's comedy recalls anything else in Shakspere;132 but he goes on to find analogies between other passages in Hamlet and some of Bruno's philosophic doctrines. Montaigne and Shakspere I know the disparagers of Shakspere and the advocates of the Baconian theory make much of the traditional wildness of Shakspere's youth. Stories of Authors, British and American In the higher qualities of imagination, as in the majesty and sweetness of his "mighty line," he is inferior to Shakspere alone. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 The argument is based upon this chronology and the alleged similarity between the enumerated dramas: the issue is made upon the respective dates of Beaumont and Fletcher's "Philaster" and Shakspere's "Cymbeline." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Thus I return to the older verdict of Coleridge and Lamb, that Shakspere wrote passages of this play, perhaps also the outlines, but that Fletcher filled up, added an underplot, and finally revised. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Nevertheless, the general fact of a frequent reproduction or manipulation of Montaigne's ideas in some of Shakspere's later plays has, I think, since been established. Montaigne and Shakspere The common argument is that a man who is charged with the poaching of deer in his youth is too bad to write good poetry, therefore Bacon wrote Shakspere. Stories of Authors, British and American A year later the death of Marlowe in a street brawl removed the only rival whose powers might have equalled Shakspere's own. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 There is no claim that Shakspere imitated Beaumont and Fletcher or was influenced by them, except in his three "romances," and of these, "Cymbeline" is placed first. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Their licentiousness, 102;points in common with Shakspere, 56, 57;representations of passion, 95, 96;stage effects, 74;subjects, 63, 73. Dante, A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Yet so far as I have seen, the matter has passed for little more than a literary curiosity, arousing no new ideas as to Shakspere's mental development. Montaigne and Shakspere Shakspere saw a world of pure passion and wholesome sanity because his world within was pure and sane. Stories of Authors, British and American The verdict of Meres that "Shakspere among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage," represented the general feeling of his contemporaries. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 If Shakspere is to be adjudged the "imitator" of Beaumont and Fletcher, the judgment must rest upon facts or inference from facts, and not upon the unsupported opinion of Professor Wendell's pupil. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Page 8: It contains two plays not Shakspere's: Page 50: Act V. scene v. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It remains to show that on his first reading of Florio's Montaigne, in 1603-4, Shakspere was more deeply and widely influenced, though the specific proofs are in the nature of the case less palpable. Montaigne and Shakspere We may know little of Shakspere, but we know less of Marlowe, his most brilliant competitor. Stories of Authors, British and American Essex himself fell on the scaffold; his friend and Shakspere's idol, Southampton, passed a prisoner into the Tower; Herbert Lord Pembroke, a younger patron of the poet, was banished from the Court. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 All these elements of the definition are applied to "Cymbeline," "The Tempest" and "Winter's Tale," and it is maintained that none of Shakspere's previous dramas present the same features. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant So, too, Shakspere, "Measure for Measure," Act i. Plutarch's Morals I may add that the thought is often repeated in the Essays, and that in several passages it compares notably with Shakspere's lines. Montaigne and Shakspere If Shakspere had been a distinguished university man, would he have told us of a catch that could "draw three souls out of one weaver?" Stories of Authors, British and American Great as was his love for Shakspere, we can hardly fancy him delighting in Falstaff. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Does any attentive reader of Shakspere's comedies, whether called romantic or tragi-comic, or by whatever other name, need to be told that many of them contain all these traits? The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Wise appends to his volume a tentative ‘glossary of words still used in Warwickshire to be found in Shakspere.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles But Professor Morley, having had his attention called to the subject by the work of Mr. Feis, who had suggested another passage as the source of Shakspere's, made a more perfect identification. Montaigne and Shakspere The modern conception is that expressed by Shakspere: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Stories of Authors, British and American With his publication in 1593 of the poem of "Venus and Adonis," "the first heir of my invention," as Shakspere calls it, the period of independent creation fairly began. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 We think it is generally thought that Shakspere was in the habit of disregarding them. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant The ink of the first signature in the will has now faded almost beyond decipherment, but that it was ‘Shakspere’ may be inferred from the facsimile made by Steevens in 1776. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The first requirement in the study, obviously, is an exact statement of the coincidences of phrase and thought in Shakspere and Montaigne. Montaigne and Shakspere Enthusiastic admirer of Shakspere, Byron, Goethe, he used to spice his conversation abundantly with quotations from these his favorite authors. Stories of Authors, British and American With this great series of historical and social dramas Shakspere had passed far beyond his fellows whether as a tragedian or as a writer of comedy. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 We are not aware that Shakspere ever followed it except in writing historical plays. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant The signature to the first document is ‘William Shakspere,’ though in all other portions of the deed the name is spelt ‘Shakespeare.’ A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles We must therefore keep closely in view the divergencies between this text and that of the Second Quarto, printed in 1604, in which the transmuting touch of Shakspere is broadly evident. Montaigne and Shakspere He is not a Homer, nor a Dante, nor a Shakspere. Stories of Authors, British and American Shakspere's wealth and influence too were growing fast. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Meanwhile, we may rest upon the fact that, so far as queens are concerned, there is no "stock type" in Shakspere; they differ from each other as widely as Hamlet's mother from Imogen's mother-in-law. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Shakspere is the spelling of the alleged autograph in the British Museum copy of Florio’s ‘Montaigne,’ but the genuineness of that signature is disputable. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles In English literature this use of the word seems to be special in Shakspere's period,23 and it has been noted by an admirer as a finely Shaksperean expression. Montaigne and Shakspere He thought the best in the language were Milton's, Shakspere's, and Wordsworth's; after these three those by his own brother Charles. Stories of Authors, British and American A few daring jests, a brawl, and a fatal stab, make up the life of Marlowe; but even details such as these are wanting to the life of William Shakspere. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 If any of them resemble Beaumont and Fletcher's queens, it is clear that Beaumont and Fletcher were the "imitators," not Shakspere. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant It was also printed in the same year as one of the publications of the New Shakspere Society. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The word discours is a hundred times used singly by Montaigne, as by Shakspere in the phrase "of such large discourse," for the process of ratiocination. Montaigne and Shakspere Her complexion was formed neither of lilies nor roses; it was that pure, perfect cream-colour, which one William Shakspere knew was beautiful, though some of his commentators have rashly differed from him. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time No dramas have done so much for Shakspere's enduring popularity with his countrymen as these historical plays. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 The "lily-livered heroes" and the "poltroons" are left out of the laborious comparison, perhaps because none of either can be found in Shakspere sufficiently like the original types in Beaumont and Fletcher. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Now Venice at this time was full of enterprising merchants—merchants such as we hear of in Shakspere's Merchant of Venice. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Of all the apparent coincidences I have noticed between Shakspere's previous plays and the essays, none has any evidential value. Montaigne and Shakspere He became interested in Shakspere, studying the plays with only the slight aids then within his reach. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 From this new world of thought and feeling Shakspere stood aloof. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Professor Thorndike's argument comes to this and only this: If Shakspere wrote "Cymbeline" before Beaumont and Fletcher wrote "Philaster," then Shakspere was the "creator of the heroic romances." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Shakspere alone excepted, no one combined with so much transcendent excellence so many, in all other men unpardonable, faults,—and reconciled us to them. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. Shakspere ignorantly adored is a mere dubious mystery; Shaks10pere followed up and comprehended, step by step, albeit never wholly revealed, becomes more remarkable, more profoundly interesting, as he becomes more intelligible. Montaigne and Shakspere From 1865 Mr. Hudson lived principally in Cambridge, frequently officiating in parish churches on Sundays, but principally devoting himself to the teaching of Shakspere and other English authors, in Boston and the immediate neighborhood. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 With Shakspere as with his fellow-countrymen the Crown is still the centre and safeguard of the national life. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Much has been written of Shakspere's impersonality, and we have been taught to think that his dramas are utterly silent as to his own experience. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant These are the touches of nature that, like the expressions of our own immortal Shakspere, however slight, and though dressed in modern garb or familiar language, reach the innermost sensibilities of the human heart. Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. It is quite possible that Shakspere may have seen parts of Florio's translation before 1603, or heard passages from it read; or even that he might have read Montaigne in the original. Montaigne and Shakspere It is but a few years since his "Harvard Shakspere" was brought out. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 When Chatham was asked where he had read his English history he answered, "In the plays of Shakspere." History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Many years ago, I was retained in the great case of The Critics against Shakspere, the most celebrated on the calendar of history during three centuries. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant These four are the precursors respectively of the purely human view, as in Shakspere, of the elevation of the poor, of Protestantism, and of natural science. The Chief End of Man And if Shakspere had not seen or heard the passage in Montaigne before the publication of Florio's folio—which, however, he may very well have done—the theory of reminiscence here cannot stand. Montaigne and Shakspere The National Edition of the Pictorial Shakspere is also published in Monthly sections, each containing Two Plays and a portion of the Biography and Studies. Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. But the very struggle and self-introspection that these dramas betray were to give a depth and grandeur to Shakspere's work such as it had never known before. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Voltaire, the presiding Justice in the court of French criticism, decided that Shakspere was "votre bizarre sauvage;" the world has reversed his decision, and everywhere, except perhaps in France, the "Henriade" is neglected for "Hamlet." The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant In the change to Shakspere we are tempted to say that we have lost heaven and escaped hell, but have taken fresh hold on earthly life and found in it unmeasured richness and significance. The Chief End of Man Shakspere's own relations with one or other of his noble patrons would make him specially alive to such suggestion. Montaigne and Shakspere But it was not the fashion now—as had been in the noble time of Watson, Raleigh, and Shakspere—for men to look around and love the greater things they grow among. Frida, or, The Lover's Leap, A Legend Of The West Country From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore It is this grandeur of humanity that finds its poetic expression in the later work of Shakspere. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 Dryden "regretted that Shakspere did not know or rarely observed the Aristotelian laws of the three unities," but was good enough to express his surprise at the powerful effect of his plays. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant |
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