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Superfluous stili 'hen it ere much more hono ur en They eould an necessar : hat ne eis athis ture Disi is c
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John IVeb C litile sanown of the life of John webster that ster an o Dyce, in his account of the dramatist's writ ings, Sir Philip complained that he could do titile more than enume-Sidne rate his different productions severa o whicli ave been lost. Although I cannot ad to the meagreparticular that areanown concerning the an and
his ait his, Iciliali ake it clea that it is possibleb patient investigation to learn omething of the writer and the authors e stud ted. In these aper I propos to confine mysel asmuch as possibi e to three of webster' productions
nam ely, The Duches of salsi, The DeviPHLaw-Case, and the poemi e wrolemn the deathi Henry, Princeo wales, hic licis entitie X sonumenta Column. I, ill how, hat has no been noti ced e re that webster a a devote admirer of the work of Sir Philip idney, and that many of his choice Sayingsand some of the most moving incident in The Duchessos salsi are alien Domi basedipon passages to e uni in the rcadia. What ebster thought of Si Philip idne as a schola an a Sol lier an be
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be the celebrator of honori and preserve of thenam es of men and memori es of Citie to posteri ty.
whicli Malone, on insussicient grounds, assigne tot he year 6I or thereabouis. et it seem proh- able froin the eviden ce obtaine Domin compariSon of the traged with rison menta Column writ tenearly in I 613, an a further comparison os oth pieces, illi the Arcadia, that Malone' date must beVery nea the mark. The angvage and style of
The Duches of sal and A sonumenta Colum areidentical and throughout both the influence of the
Arcadia is persistent, and so palpable that it astonis hesine that o previous writer has ver noti cedri t. The
Duches of sas a certaini performe be fore March, I 618-9, when Burbage who originali played Ferdinand di ed. As I canno find any of webster sother productions repeatin the phrasin and styleo The Duches of sal so closely as insonumental Column I conclude that both pieces ere CompoSed
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it ere not for the circumstance that it Seems to meto e involve in the evidence hic hes have e re me. The D i s Law-Case optes the rcadia, and qui te as opent a The Duches of sal and A sonumenta Colum do, ut the repetitions of Sidne in
that play are distincti of another order for, herem the traged and the poena prove that webster musthave ritiei them hiis his ind was ut of the Arcadia, the coinciden ces illi the alter in The Devi s Law-Cas have ali the appearance faeingnotes sed after a lapse of time, and when Nebster'smind was notrio familiar, illi the contexis in Sidney'swork In The Deoi s Law-Case obster oes notimitate Sir hilli Sidney's style, he meret borrowSDom him in the the two ieces the influence of the rcadia is fel in almost very cene an page. My objeci, then, is to ho that ebster a very
much indebled torii Philip idney, and this faci, fit oes no ad Di ou knowledge of the dramatist 'stiis, mus o necessit give his more than a GSingglimpse of the an and his method of writing.
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Sidne mahes Que en Helen se the fame languagewhen he describes to Palladius the maniae in hic hAmphilaus on herci ove:
His fame hadiso framed the wayrio my mind that his presence, so sui os beauty, weetness, an nobi conversation, ad enteredinere before he votichsais to cali for the keys. - Arcadia,'' book i.
Whils the duches and Antonio a re talking love Ferdinandinters unperceived by them, an dii reSent-ment an determination to punish his sister are sostrong that he offer her a agger, command in her
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Is it that dotii eclipse theet . . . . Orcis it true thou ariaut a bare name, Andis essentia thingi . . . . mos imperfeci light os human reason, That mali' si us o unliappy to foresee What e canes east reventu . . . . there' in ham no com sortButrioa past ali bound an sense of sh a me. Ll. 82-9s.
a ain a me, an no essentiat thing . . . . O ina perfeci proportionos reason, hicli an to much foresee, an to litile reveni l . . . . In ham there is no com fortaut to e beyon allio und of shame.
The duches repties to Ferdinand 's speech by tell- in him that he is married though perhap no tollis hin g, and that his desigia concern in her future has been frustraled
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Antonio is a nobi character, a mala very Way
worthy of the love of the duch esk and webster, when describin him, employs language the beati tyos hic licit is impossibi e to verprai Se
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The description o Aialonio is an imitation, ut a nobi imitation, o Sidney's description o Musidorus and with it ebster has tended ord that appea in the description o Partheni
Sidney describes Musidorus thus -
For, hau in solan in him besides his odit gi sis,'eyond the degre os admiration by ait discourses, hichae delighted himself
Compare the las lines of the alter quotation illithe fosso wing
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But e te no done et illi the description Oh II b-Musidorus for Nebster has again sed it a materiai ueter and
for the descriptioni Prince Henry. It will e een Si Philipthat the imitation is lose in the poem than in the Si οplay, and that he Duches of salsi an sonumenta Columniave a line almos identi catly the sameas ach ther, hici, is no in Sidney, although in his style The ne in question is the firs in the fosso win quo talion
His formand virtve both deserv'd his fortuneri His in d qui te vo id os ostentation, His high-e rected thought look' down ponThe mitin valle of his fruit fu heart, c.
The scene in The Duches ossa svphere Ferdinandpay a visit to the darkene chamber of his sister, causes heroo his the deat man 's and and then, having ad the oom rilli antly Ilighte up pulisas id a curtain and reveat the supposed odies of Antonio an his hild ren, is loset associaled withthe incident of the supposed decapitationis Philoclea in the rcadia Ferdinand plays the parti Sidney's Cecropia; and the horror of the ducti essint belloid in gwhat he belleves to e the dea bodies of her hild rei and hisban parallel the anguisti os Pyrocles at witnessing what he hin k is the execution os Philoclea The resemblance et ween the wo inci-
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Iohn IVeb deiit is particular as et a genera in character. ster an Pyrocles aries clo ira in himself, and the ducti ess, Si, Philip equat ly resolved noto sur vive long the SuppoSed Sidne death of her hisband expresse a determination tosta me hersei fio eat h. At this poliat in both pieces,