Shakespeare's Library
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ISBN13: 9780217253826
Paperback|9780217253826
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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: EUPHUES' GOLDEN LEGACIE, FOUND AFTER HIS DEATH IN HIS CELL AT SILEXEDRA. Ac. By THOMAS LODGE, Gent. UPON WHICH SHAKESPEARE FOUNDED HIS AS YOU LIKE IT. REPRINTED FROM THE EDITION OF 1592. LONDON: THOMAS RODD, 2, GREAT NEWPORT STREET. HDCCCXLI. INTRODUCTION. SXEEVENS, speaking of the obligations of Shakespeare to the novel we have here reprinted, says, that our great dramatist followed it more exactly than is his general custom, when he is indebted to such worthless originals. Let it be remembered, that this opinion as to the value of Lodge's Rosalynd was given by the commentator who asserted that the force of an Act of Parliament would not be sufficient to compel people to read Shakespeare's Sonnets, and who pronounced Watson a more elegant writer than Shakespeare in that department of poetry. Comparing Rosalynd with As you like it, the former may indeed be termed worthless, inasmuch as Shakespeare's play is so immeasurably superior to it; but Steevens spoke in the abstract of works of the kind of which Shakespeare had availed himself; and placing Lodge's novel by the side of other productions of the same class, we cannot hesitate to declare it a very amusing and varied composition, full of agreeable and graceful invention (for we are aware of no foreign authority for any of the incidents), and with much natural force and simplicity in the style of the narrative. That it is here and there disfigured by the faults of the time, by forced conceits, by lowness of allusion and expression, and sometimes by inconsistency and want of decorum in the characters, cannot be denied. These are errors which the judgment and genius of Shakespeare taught him to avoid; but the admitted extent and nature of his general obligations to Lodge afford a hi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217253826 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217253822 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $21.42 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 110 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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