An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets; With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets; With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...talents, that he could make every being his fancy created, subservient to his designs. The uncouth, awkward monster, Caliban, is so subject to his genius, as to assist in bringing things to the proposed end and perfection. And the slight fairies, weak masters though they be, even intheir wanton gambols and idle sports, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: ...talents, that he could make every being his fancy created, subservient to his designs. The uncouth, awkward monster, Caliban, is so subject to his genius, as to assist in bringing things to the proposed end and perfection. And the slight fairies, weak masters though they be, even intheir wanton gambols and idle sports, perform great tasks by his so potent art. But to return to the intended comparison between the Grecian shade, and the Danish ' ' ghost. ghost. The first propriety in the conduct of this kind of machinery seems to be, that the praeternatural person be intimately connected with the fable; that he increase the interest, add to the solemnity of it, and that his efficiency, in bringing on the catastrophe, be in some measure adequate to the violence done to the ordinary course of things, in his visible interposition. These are points peculiarly important in dramatic poetry, as has been before observed. To these ends it is necessary, this being should stand acknowledged and revered by the national superstition, and thus every operation that developes the attributes, which vulgar opinion, or the nurse's legend, have taught us to ascribe to him, will augment our pleasure; whether we give the reins to our imagination, and, as spectators, willingly yield ourselves up to pleasingdelusion, or, as critics, examine the merit of the composition. I hope it is not difficult to shew, that in all these capital points our author has excelled. At the solemn midnight hour, Horatio and Marcellus, the L I school schoolfellows of young Hamlet, come to the centinels upon guard, excited by a report that a Ghost of their late Monarch had, some preceding nights, appeared to them. Horatio, not being one of the believing vulgar, gives little credit to the story, but b...
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