By Max Bluestone
ISBN-10: 0138076774
ISBN-13: 9780138076771
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Being a king, he says, his passions are greater than others'. Hephaestion must cease With arguments to seek to repel that which with their deity the gods cannot resist. (II. ii. ) Again, a typical thought of Lyly's--love's superb strength. Moreover, says Alexander, is it not likely and reasonable that the captive Campaspe should return an Alexander's love? But note the exquisite reply: You say that in love there is no reason, and therefore there can be no likelihood. (II. ii. ) The light dialogue plays over psychological profundities.
Lyly's plays more precisely than any others reflect the court of Elizabeth; our interest is closely involved in this; his pregnant love-analyses come hot, as it were, from knowledge of courtflirtations; and we rather like to feel there are points in the dialogue and sometimes the whole structure to which we cannot respond as directly as his first audience. The very flavor, as it were, of the plays would be different were he always transmuting, instead of reflecting, his day. Lyly is not, and is not wanted to be, Shakespeare.
It was enough to enumerate them and their plays in works of reference. If the typical late seventeenth-century record is a stationer's catalogue, the typical eighteenth-century record is a dictionary of the drama. -x- So far as criticism is concerned, the eighteenth century devoted its whole energies to Shakespeare, who was fast dimming the stars of even Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher. Concern for the other Elizabethan dramatists was mainly antiquarian, and their plays--if published at all--were published in the same spirit as the ancient ballads.