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into the action without in the least confusing the construction. In making an actor the hero of the play, and in giving him so many opportunities of showing his art, Massinger no doubt felt every confidence in the genius of J. Taylor, but perhaps the chief charm of the play is...
into the action without in the least confusing the construction. In making an actor the hero of the play, and in giving him so many opportunities of showing his art, Massinger n...
2. Act I., 2; Act IV., 2.A. H. C.: There are clearly three hands at work here, one of whom writes obscurely and uses a good deal of rhyme. Act I., 1 reminds us of Massinger in several touches, especiall...
3. Act V., 1 has some sentences cast in the parenthetic form, the expressionsA. H. C.: Massinger wrote Act I., 1, 2, 3 from “Enter Agenor,” V., 2. Fletcher wrote Act I., 3; Act II., 1, 2, 3, 4; Act III., 1, 2; Act V., 3. As usual, he is responsible for t...
4. Act II. to him, must have been guided solely by metrical considerations.There is not a trace of his style in the Act. No doubt it is true that Hippolyta is a type familiar in Massinger’s plays; and her sudden change of mind in the last act reminds u...
5. Act V., 3. The trial scene (Act III, 3), though on slighter lines than heA. H. C.: Massinger wrote Act I., Act V., 3 as far as Clarissa’s speech. Fletcher wrote Act II., Act III., Act IV., Act V., 1, 2. The mother’s device to save her son is the sort...
6. Act I. At Venice he was persecuted by the “embassadour of Castile,” whosename is not given, but whose place in the play is taken by Flaminius. On p. 49 he is said to have been beaten by the Moors in Africa in 1578, and to be now (1600) a prisoner at...
7. Act IV.—Stage-manager’s note in left-hand margin of 186, “Long.” _Cf._ ActThe MS. (No. 39 in the Dyce Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum) comprises nineteen leaves of the same size as those of _Believe as You List_. It has suffered much from damp,...
8. letter C, small and capital, in _The Parliament of Love_ is constantlywritten thus, ⊕. A marked feature of the MS. is the doubling of consonants—_e.g._, tollerable, vallor, quallities, cullors. It looks as if, while it was in Gifford’s hands, ink...
9. Act II., 1, line 224, that “it has beauties of so very high an order, thatwith all my respect for Massinger, I do not think he had poetical enthusiasm capable of furnishing them. His associate Dekker, who wrote _Old Fortunatus_, had poetry enough for...
10. Chapter V.538 I have read with interest and care E. H. C. Oliphant’s articles in _Englische Studien_ (xiv., xv., xvi.). He finds more work of Beaumont in the plays than other scholars. Th...