The Critics Versus Shakspere
The Critics Versus Shakspere

The Critics Versus Shakspere

The Critics Versus Shakspere - A Brief for the DefendantMany years ago, I was retained in the...
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Author: Smith, Francis Asbury,1837-1915
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The Critics Versus Shakspere

The Critics Versus Shakspere

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The Critics Versus Shakspere

The Critics Versus Shakspere

$105.71 $52.83
Author: Smith, Francis Asbury,1837-1915
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Critics Versus Shakspere - A Brief for the Defendant

Many years ago, I was retained in the great case of The Critics against Shakspere, the most celebrated on the calendar of history during three centuries. Unlike other cases, it has been repeatedly decided, and as often reopened and reheard before the most eminent judges, who have again and again non-suited the plaintiffs. Appeals have availed nothing to reverse those decisions. New actions have been brought on the ground of newly discovered evidence; counsel have summed up the testimony from all lands, from whole libraries and literatures, and the great jury of mankind have uniformly rendered a verdict of no cause of action.[2] Ben Jonson said that Shakspere "wanted art"; the highest appellate court decided that "Lear" was a greater work than Euripides or Sophocles ever produced. Voltaire, the presiding Justice in the court of French criticism, decided that Shakspere was "votre bizarre sauvage;" the world has reversed his decision, and everywhere, except perhaps in France, the "Henriade" is neglected for "Hamlet." During the seventeenth century, English criticism sought to put Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Otway, Wycherly, Congreve, Cowley, Dryden, and even the madman Lee, above Shakspere. Denham in 1667 sings an obituary to the memory of the "immortal" Cowley, ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 27485
Author: Smith, Francis Asbury
Release Date: Dec 10, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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