The Two Noble Kinsmen (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Fletcher, John

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ISBN 10: 1333015674 ISBN 13: 9781333015671

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Countrymen, Messengers, a man personating Hymen, Boy, Executioner, Guard, and Attend ants. Country wenches, and women personating Nymphs.

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Authorship. All critics are practically agreed (1) that two writers were concerned in the play (2) that one of them was Fletcher. But neither the exact division of the play between the two, nor the identity of the second writer, is finally settled. The first contention rests upon palpable difl'erences in style and metre, and, to some extent, in conception of character. It was especially the contrast between the close-knitted, weighty, abrupt, rapid, metaphorical style of 1. I. And the fluent, melodious, eloquent style of 11. Ii., which struck Spald ing's notice, and served as the basis of his, and afterwards of Hickson's, division. A generation later, Messrs. Furnivall, Fleay, and Ingram applied the well-known tests of metre to the play as divided by Hickson, with remarkable results, finding that in the parts assigned to Fletcher and to Shakspere, the pro portion of 'light endings' was respectively 1 in 445 and 1 in 21, of weak endings' 1 in 1426 and in 32, of 'double endings' 1 in and 1 in Moreover, these results were in ex tremely close agreement with those obtained from the parts assigned to Fletcher and Shakspere in Henry VIII. And here Shakspere's participation was beyond question. Both in metre and style the resemblance of the Shaksperean scenes of Tlee Two Noble K'insmen to Shakspere's latest plays is extraordi narily close.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333015674
• ISBN 13: 9781333015671
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178