Richard the Third up to Shakespeare [Unknown Binding]

George Bosworth Churchill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1976

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... crities think, Shakespeare's play is a revision of an anterior play, especially if, as Mr. Fleay feels sure, this anterior play was Marlowe's, it may have been subject to Legge's influence, and so account for the presence in Shakespeare's play of some of the resemblances here noted. It is difficult to compare the wooing scenes and not cherish a suspicion that such was the case. IV. Lacej's Richardus Tertius. The existence among the Mss. in the British Museum of another play bearing the same title as Legge's has long been known. Nobody seemed, however, to have given the piece more than the hastiest examination, and it was designated by Farmer "a childish imitation" of Legge's play. It was mentioned in Field's introduction to Legge's Richardus Tertius (Shak. Soc. Pub. 1844) on the authority of Halliwell as "a poor imitation", and it appeared under the same designation in Halliwell's Dictionary of Plays, 1800. It is, in fact, nothing less than a transcript of Legge's play, made, as appears from Ms. Harl. 6926, by Henry Lacey in 1856, for presentation at Trinity College, Cambridge. A second Ms. is Harl. 2412. The establishment of this fact was due to the authors of the Athenae Cantabrigienses, 1861. cf. vol 2, p. 41. V. The "Tragical Report of King Richard the Third". August 15, 1586 was entered in the Stationer's Register "A tragical Report of King Richard the Third, a Ballad. This is not extant, and nothing further is known of it. Stieevens seems to have thought that it may have been a play, as he says, "It may be necessary to remark that the words, song, ballad, enterlude and play were synonymously used" (quoted in Boswell's Malone, vol. 21, p. 19); but there is absolutely no ground for the assumption. Mr. Fleay once thought that the ballad was called fort...

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 548 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874717736
• ISBN-13: 978-0874717730
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,591,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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