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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA: TRUTH FOUND TOO LATE. TRAGEDY. Rectius Iliacum carmen deducts in actus, i Quant oproferres ignota indictaque primut.?Hor. TROILUS AND CKESSIDA. The story of TrqUus and Cressida was one of the more modern fables, engrafted, duringthedark ages, on thetaleof Troy divine. Chaucer, -who made It the subject of a long and somewhat dull poem, professes to have derived his facts from an author, of the middle ages, called Lollius, to whom he often refers, and who he states to have written in Latin. Tyrwhitt disputes the existence of this personage, and supposes Chaucer's original to have been the Philostrato delt amorose fatiche de Trcilo, a work of Boccacio. But Chaucer was never reluctant, in acknowledging obligations to his contemporaries, when such really existed; and Mr Tyrwhitt's opinion seems to be successfully combated by Mr Godwin, in his Life of Chaucer. The subject, whencesoever derived, was deemed by Shakespeare worthy of the stage; and his tragedy, of Troilus and Cressida, contains so many scenes of distinguished excellence, that it could have been wished our author had mentioned it with more ve .oration. In truth, even the partiality of an editor must admit, that, on this occasion, the modern improvements of Dryden shew to very little advantage beside the venerable structure to which they have been attached. The arrangement of the plot is, indeed, more artificially modelled; but the preceding age, during which the infidelity of Cressida was proverbially current, could as little have endured a catastrophe turning upon the discovery of her innocence, as one which should have exhibited Helen chaste, or Hector a coward. In Dryden's time, the prejudice against this unfortunate female was probably forgotten, as her history had become less...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217897389 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021789738X |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $22.07 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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