Excerpt from The True Story of Hamlet and Ophelia We readily perceive that these are the character istics that Shakespeare's young prince displays, and we shall be forced to admit that Shakespeare took Hamblet exactly as he found him, and carried him from the sixth century to the seventeenth, modify ing only the manifestations of his pretended mad ness to make them pleasing to the age in which he placed him. We must also allow that he repre sented all the other personages whom he took from the Hystorie exactly as they are ...
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Excerpt from The True Story of Hamlet and Ophelia We readily perceive that these are the character istics that Shakespeare's young prince displays, and we shall be forced to admit that Shakespeare took Hamblet exactly as he found him, and carried him from the sixth century to the seventeenth, modify ing only the manifestations of his pretended mad ness to make them pleasing to the age in which he placed him. We must also allow that he repre sented all the other personages whom he took from the Hystorie exactly as they are represented there, that is, as to their characters and possibilities of action. 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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