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Ηe notes the earliest symptoms of madness in the tempest-hun ted
he is once more invested With the imperiat garniture, he has recognised Cordelia, e has tasted that her ρε tears are Wet,' they are made captives by Regan, forcos, Cordolia is killod in PriSon,-Lear SurpriSes the eXecutioner in his dosed of doath and slays him, he o ters With her body in his arnis, he is distraucti, ut the ever diateous daughter does not engross allhis thoughts,-another remembrance Wakens in him,-it is os his lowly companion in vicissitude, in storin, in danger, t is of his adviser, remonstrant, entertainer, Dieiid, t is of himwho spont life and sussered death in his service, Who, it is almost certain, bore the dat ly contempt of a Dol's disguisse anda sool's scoria, that he might spein truth in a prince S ear, and prove loyalty to a benefactor's person,-Who obtained the elegyof his lord, last si , and the epitaph of his monarch's expiring memory, mingled Strangely and confusedly, it must be remem-bered, With satherly tears over his last and only bolouod child atthat moment clasped in his embrace, While he is dying too,-
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How disserent froni this is the place of the jesters in the oldendrama i They are generalty StaVes, play a doubie part betWeon
pulous of the means by Whicli they may secure their liberty. The parasite also osten figures for the fame purpose. Μoliere has introducod the seol in La Princess0 d' Elido, but Aloron is litile more than a privileged courtier, a favolarite who finds thatho may be too ossiciolis and sincere. Scott has most thoroughlymastered the character in modem times. His Wamba is almost Shakspeariari. It is scarcely possibie to sorget his contrivance torescite Cedric. Gaining admission by the fria 's habit into Torquilsione he overcomes his master's reluctance, and bidding him
Ηe spealis more in a minute than he will stand to in a monili. '
Τhe caim, dishonourabie, vile submission
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It necessitates, he being kin sinan to the prince, his near Hly, the banishmont of Romeo Who has avenged his manes by Tybali sdeath. Upon that exile the catastrophe depend8.-The secondinstando of this kind is Polonius, Who perhaPS SeemS, UPOn aflicti viow of his character, only a Dolisti sycophant and time- Server. But he Was principat ad visor of Claudius in contractingliis horrid marriage:
The head is not more native to the heari, The hand more instrumental to the mouth, Than is the Throne of Denmark to thy sather.
Ηe evidently can conceive and suggest good, clear, advice to his childron, and only tallis his Dolisti pratile at court. But his vioWs for those childron are somelimes exceeding bad. His charge to Reynaldo, Who is to aci as a Spy Upon Laertes While in Franco, saps the solandations of ali morality, and eXpressesbiit one care, his prosciency in music. He owns that he
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Νot loss is his spiriting when hereans the letter, and his epitheis
admit of comparison With the ancipiit, hecause it is osten introducsed into his tragedios. With him these intermixtures are frequent. In that, they are nover attempted. The chorus maybe sarcastic, but it cannot be light. The question os proprietycannot be noW discussed, our author Would not in some instances admit it, Witness his Μacbeth. ' Only do We Venture to RSk,- may not the pain os Unrelieved tragedy be too oppressive Θ Isit common or known that one series of calamities stiali be continued without any character appearing in the range of the action, any sentiment rising among the accesSortes, moVing
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caustic irony and 8arcasm Stop almost the molith of the mi santhropo Timon. Casca mahes the ambition and modesty of Caesar
passed by ShalloW, Stender, Simple, in Windsor. What a
ali his friends, then, me bandage loosed, finding himself in his
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he is despatching his lac lueys, he is exhibiting his genis, he is
robuking his late superiors. Ηe di sappears only for a granderentrance With his yellow Stockings and cross-garters. Ηe standsbe re his mistress, reci ting sentences of the letter, and his face puckered into smiles. He is confined as a lunatic, and the clown Who Was a party to the cheat, noW as Sir Topas, visits and
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THE CLASSICA L COMEDY COMPARED
This is alWays a dissiculi introduction, and generalty an injustice. Ιf it be very neatly accomptished, it is Worthy of litilepraise. Aristophanes has far more adroitly hit it in his ridiculo
of tho Lacedaemonians by the employment of their dialect.-one Would not like to pass over Bottom Without a notice, thalmost ambitious yet useful actor, Willing to doubie his paris, Veto trebi e them, to play Pyramus, Thisbe, and Lion Outright.-Μust Launco M sorgotton 8 It is as though he had been subjected to sonae exhaustive process by Which he had boon emptiodos every intellectual particle, test in ulter inanity, without a tiesave that by which he leads and restratias his mischievous cur, Crab. Μaster Barnardine ought not to bo hanged. Jack Cadebottor lives in this author than in the most authentic history. Here the demagogiae is in his fuit longili. He denounces education, opens j aiis, buriis records, thon boasis lordly blood,
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-they imagine that they have struck out the triae reading of this character. It is for us to enquire Whether this idea be just. It cannot be proved that Shakspeare formed this characteriapon any individuat: most probably it is a pure invention. At first it boro the nanis of Oidcasile. But this was Dit to bea strange Deedom With a holy name. This could not have been his Wish. For the oversi t he apologises, in the epilogiae to thesecond part of Henry ΙV.: Oidcasile died a martyr, and thisis not the man. ' There is stili a play extant, ascribed to him,
that ho mix0d with the victous, that he revelled in strange excesses, and that oti times he was in circumstances of perithoni the outrages of his followers, is not froin his own. Withthe recent dispute, ressed, though by no means for tho 6rst time, by the Rev. Endeli Tyter, We cannot intermeddie. It is enouo for our purpose, not that ait this belles is faci, butthat it is faci that there is ali this belles It is not a constrainedthought that a royal youth like this must Dei the influenco offome poWerfui tempter, the tutor and the broeder of his riois. It was most naturai. With whom did ho malo Θ Falsiasr is
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Wore it so, it says litile for the fair vestat, ' and could litile, Wo Wist, heip her maiden meditation.' Great as is iis incident, transition, contriVance, machinery, and Wit, it has servedio destroy the consistency of this character. Let any personask, When Should this play be read 8 Besore the two dramas of Henry IV. 8 Falstafr comes ori as an old acquaintance, he is
Was not then an aequaintance of Prince Hal. Page spealis thus