Excerpt from The Tragedy: Reprinted From Bishop Ponet's Translation Out of Ochino's Latin Manuscript in 1549 (2) For a work written in the sixteenth century, this play is singularly free from that coarseness of expression which, while it carried with it no sense of impropriety two or three centuries ago, has grown to be very distasteful to our own age - coarseness which abounds in Shake spere, and from which even the authorised version of the Bible is not free. Occasionally, though very rarely, - not more than three or ...
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Excerpt from The Tragedy: Reprinted From Bishop Ponet's Translation Out of Ochino's Latin Manuscript in 1549 (2) For a work written in the sixteenth century, this play is singularly free from that coarseness of expression which, while it carried with it no sense of impropriety two or three centuries ago, has grown to be very distasteful to our own age - coarseness which abounds in Shake spere, and from which even the authorised version of the Bible is not free. Occasionally, though very rarely, - not more than three or four times in the whole play, - coarse expressions occur in The Tragedy, and when they do so, I have thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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