Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
But there is another class of additions and alterations which surprises us by being unmistakably in Marlowe's style. If these additions are really by Shakespeare, he must have been under the influence of Marlowe to a quite extraordinary degree. Swinburne has pointed out how en...
"Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors,...
5. Act i. sc. 2)."Now, Iras, what thinkest thou? Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown In Rome as well as I: mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the vi...
4. Scene 2:--"_Ham_. So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memor...
2. Act v. 5):--This passage anticipates, as it were, a celebrated speech in _Macbeth_. Most remarkable of all, however, are the Cade scenes in the Second Part. I cannot persuade myself that th...
1. Part II., Act iii. 2, which is new with the exception of the firstBut there is another class of additions and alterations which surprises us by being unmistakably in Marlowe's style. If these additions are really by Shakespeare, he must have b...