A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen

A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen - and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy

Hemistitchs, metrical lines shared between speakers or verses, may not display properly in all browsers. The best way to see appropriately spaced hemistitches is by looking at a text version of this book. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. They have been marked with hovers like this. Position your mouse over the underline to read what appears in the original. A complete list of corrections as well as other Transcriber's Notes follows the text. This Letter by Prof. Spalding has always seemd to me one of the ablest (if not the ablest) and most stimulating pieces of Shakspere criticism I ever read. And even if you differ from the writer's conclusion as to Shakspere's part, or even hold that Shakspere took no part at all, in the Play, you still get almost as much good from the essay as if you accept its conclusions as to the authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen. It is for its general, more than for its special, discussions, that I value this Letter. The close reasoning, the spirited language, the perception and distinction of the special qualities of Shakspere's work, the investigation into the nature of dramatic art, the grasp of subject, and the mixt logic and enthusiasm of the whole Letter, are worthy of a true critic of our great poet, and of the distinguisht Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and Metaphysics, who wrote this treatise, that at once delights and informs every one who reads it. No wonder it carrid away and convinct even the calm judicial mind of Hallam. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35631
Author: Spalding, William
Release Date: Mar 19, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English