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. 1921 Excerpt: ...girl and an embittered lover unjustifiable deductions about Shakepeare's frame of mind when he wrote it. The chief interest of the play, and certainly its chief interest as a piece of "workmanship," seems to me to lie in its vividness as a panorama, as a series of suddenly illuminated scenes in which many characters, ...
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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. 1921 Excerpt: ...girl and an embittered lover unjustifiable deductions about Shakepeare's frame of mind when he wrote it. The chief interest of the play, and certainly its chief interest as a piece of "workmanship," seems to me to lie in its vividness as a panorama, as a series of suddenly illuminated scenes in which many characters, Greek and Trojan, live and move, each with his distinct face and opinions and temper. It resembles one of those bright and crowded "compartment" pictures that the early Flemings painted. If both Troilus and Cressida were left out, the siege of Troy, in sections, would remain; and I cannot think (and I am sure Sir Arthur would not think) that in making that great tapestry Shakespeare did not know what he was doing, and know that, in drama, it was a novel and difficult thing. II: The Blackamoor In the last paper I made some remarks about Othello. I will not inflict a literal repetition of these upon my readers (if, as the modest editor said, any such there be), but the gist of them was that the end of the play was not convincing. I argued that, although some men might kill their wives out of jealousy, the Othello whom we have got to know in the play, passionate though he is, would not have done it. All round, it is not an inevitable, but a forced--even a faked--ending, however this may be disguised by the verisimilitude of Shakespeare's detail and the natural splendours of his language. I had never examined the sources of the play, but I thought that probably the plot as Shakespeare found it hampered him: that Othello murdered his wife "in the original," and that the dramatist made him do it in his play in spite of the fact that as the play developed Othello's character grew into something quite unlike that of the mu...
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