Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays In Spite of this interest, however, and of the peculiar merits of A Fair Quarrel and The Changeling, but little has been done to fix the respective shares -of the two dramatists in the composition of these plays. We should not perhaps wonder at the carelessness of a seventeenth century public, and it is not to be regarded as evidence of any lack of appreciation of these pieces, for that was not a critical age, and the same carelessness is noticeable ...
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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Authorship of the Middleton-Rowley Plays In Spite of this interest, however, and of the peculiar merits of A Fair Quarrel and The Changeling, but little has been done to fix the respective shares -of the two dramatists in the composition of these plays. We should not perhaps wonder at the carelessness of a seventeenth century public, and it is not to be regarded as evidence of any lack of appreciation of these pieces, for that was not a critical age, and the same carelessness is noticeable in the case of the popular idols, Beaumont and Fletcher; but it is somewhat surprising that more has not been done in this matter of late years. It is true Mr. Fleay has attempted to make a division. Indeed, he has assigned every scene of these plays to either one dramatist or the other.1 Un fortunately, however, misprints have in some instances made his division uncertain.2 Moreover, as he has allowed himself on several occasions to fall into downright contradictions 3 in his middleton-rowley work that cannot be accounted for as mis prints, and has in no case given reasons for his statements, we cannot regard these as anything more authoritative than mere expressions of Opinion, and cannot yield them unquestion ing belief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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