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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. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...hath lost his Pearl. Ben Jonson in his Ode "Come leaue the loathed stage" (1629-1630), singled out for special scorn "some mouldy tale Like Pericles"; while Owen Feltham reminded him frankly that certain portions of his own Nero Inn "throw a stain Through all the unlikely plot, and do displease As deep as Pericles." It must be observed that there is no reference in these latter quotations to Shakespeare's alleged authorship. Subsequently, Dryden accepted the play, while Pope rejected it, and the early editors down to the time of Malone followed his example; since the time of Steevens it has been included in the Canon, its doubtful character, however, being generally recognized. "I must acquit," wrote Steevens in opposition to Malone's views, "even the irregular and lawless Shakespeare of having constructed the fabric of the drama, though he has certainly bestowed some decoration on its parts. Yet even this decoration, like embroidery on a blanket, only serves by contrast to expose the meanness of the original materials." Happily modern criticism corroborates the judgment of the First Editors, condemns a great part of Pericles as altogether un-Shakespearean, and relieves the poet of all the offensive and loathsome scenes of "the moldy tale." Shakespeare's hand cannot be traced in the first two Acts, nor in the coarse portions of Act IV, viz. scenes ii, v, and vi; his work is "the strange and worthy accidents in the Birth and Life of Marina," and is to be found in the last three acts of the play. Mr. Fleay has extracted the precious metal from the alloy, and the result is a charming Shakespearean Romance--"a kind of prologue" to the glorious group of...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151195863
- ISBN 13 9781151195869
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages78
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