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Title: Shakespeare the player, and other papers illustrative of Shakespeare's individuality
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cargill, Alexander
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: London : Constable and company ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ll. London, 1G75. 12mo. Edward Phillips (1G30-1G9G ?), the author of this compilation,was nephew and pupil of the poet Milton, many of whose opinionshe reproduced in this volume. In the Preface Phillips remarks : Lei us observe Spenser with all his Rustic, obsolete word*, with allhis rough-hewn clowterly Verses; yet lake him throughout, and we sludlfind in him a gracefull and Poetic Majesty : in like wanner Shakspear,in spight of all his unfiled expressions, Jiis rambling and indigestedFancys, the laughter of the Critical, yet must be canfesst a Poet abovemany that go beyond him in Literature some degrees On p. 194 Phillips makes the following observations uponShakespeare: William Shakespear, the Glory of the English Stage ; whosenativity at Stratford upon Avon, is the highest honour that Town canboast of: from an Actor of Tragedies and Comedies, he became aMaker; and such a Maker, that though some others may perhapspretend to a more exact Decorum and ceconomie, especially in Tragedy,
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SIR WALTER RALEGH From the painting, probably by Zucchero, in the National Portrait Gallery, London CONTEMPORARY REFERENCES 79 never any expresst a more lofty and Tragic heighth ; never anyrepresented nature more purely to the life, and where the polishmentsof Art are most wanting, as probably his Learning was not extra-ordinary, he pleaseth with a certain wild and native Elegance ; andin all his Writings hath an unvulgar style, as well in his Venus andAdonis, his Rape of Lucrece, and other various Poems, as in hisDramatics. Phillips also remarks of Ben Jonson that he was no Shakesphear.Of Marlowe he says that he was a kind of a second Shakesphear (whosecontemporary he was). Again, Phillips notes of Fletcher that hewas one of the happy Triumvirate (the other two being Shakespeareand Jonson) of the chief dramatic Poets of our Nation, in thelast foregoing Age, among whom there might be said to be a sym-metry of perfect, while each excelled in his peculiar way : Ben Jonsonin his elaborat

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