An Image of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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While the history of the Plays is confused Shakespeare's image in them must be distorted, and if we have a wrong notion of him they also would be misunderstood. It ought to be possible to discover the right Order of his Poems and Plays. The Order commonly accepted to-day, with some variations, is founded on chance hints and metrical tests, and many students have recognized that it cannot be right. Mr. Saintsbury, for instance, writes in his History of Englisb Prosody: I ought to say, that it seems to me pretty certain that some (and perhaps many) of the Plays represent very different stages and were, in all probability, begun, suspended and finished with more or less rewriting, sometimes at long intervals. And he writes in the Cambridge History of Literature about Tbc Mercbaut of Venice To the present writer it has been for many years a moral certainty that these different parts are of different dates, and that a similar differ ence prevails much more largely in Shakespeare's work than uncommonly thought and about Measure for Measure.

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