By Edward Dowden
ISBN-10: 1108000762
ISBN-13: 9781108000765
Dowden's severe research of 1875 ways Shakespeare from the human part, exhibiting how Shakespeare the fellow is seen via his artwork. relocating from Shakespeare's early performs to his overdue interval, and grouping the performs in response to key levels in his profession, the e-book strains the expansion of Shakespeare's mind and personality from formative years to complete adulthood. Dowden doesn't search to align Shakespeare with any specific unmarried personality from his performs, yet sees facets of Shakespeare in lots of of his dramatic creations, demonstrating how Shakespeare represents many various facets of human lifestyles. The reader is supplied with an perception into the questions on the leading edge of Shakespeare's brain, his such a lot extreme moments of notion and his discoveries approximately human lifestyles. Outlining the diversities among the younger Shakespeare and Shakespeare as a mature and skilled guy, the ebook permits us to raised comprehend Shakespeare's personality and genius.
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To it all that is upon this earth is real; and it does not concern itself greatly about the reality of other things. Of heaven or hell it Shakspere and the Elizabethan Age. 27 has no power to sing. It finds such and such facts here and now, and does not invent or discover supernatural causes to explain the facts. It pursues man to the moment of death, but it pursues him no farther. If it confesses " the burden of the mystery " of human life it does not attempt to lighten that burden by any " Thus saith the Lord," which cannot be verified or attested by actual experience.
Our conclusion, therefore, is that Shakspere lived and moved in two worlds—one limited, practical, positive; the other a world opening into two infinites, an infinite of thought, and an infinite of passion. He did not suppress either life to the advantage of the other; but he adjusted them, and by stern and persistent resolution held them in the necessary adjustment. In the year 1602 Shakspere bought for the sum of three hundred and twenty pounds, one hundred and seven acres of arable land in the parish of Old Stratford.
It is well if some supreme joy or sorrow which has overtaken us save us from possible recurrence of this mood of weary cynicism. But humbler means at times have served. The tear shed over a tale of Marmontel by one who recorded his malady and his recovery, has occasioned certain smiles on critical lips * A true physician of the soul discerns that such a tear is not despicable, but significant as the beads of perspiration which tell that the crisis of a fever * J. S. Mill's Autobiography, pp. 140-41.