 The reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted.  A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 125by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1884 - 830 pages
...abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakspere scarcely improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and...scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted. The Rich Jew of Malta. — Marlowe's Jew does not approach so near to Shakspere's as his Edward the... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...of abdicating royalty ; ' the other is that death scene, which, in the words of the same critic, ' moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.' The poet undertook no facile task when he essayed to show the light, lascivious Edward dignified in... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...of abdicating royalty ; ' the other is that death scene, which, in the words of the same critic, ' moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.' The poet undertook no facile task when he essayed to show the light, lascivious Edward dignified in... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 422 pages
...abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarce improved in his Richard ihe Second; and the deathscene of Marlowe's king moves pity and...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." Mr. Swinburne thinks that there is more discrimination of character in Marlowe's play than Shakespeare's;... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 436 pages
...abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarce improved in his Richard tfi e Second; and the deathscene of Marlowe's king moves pity and...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." Mr. Swinburne thinks that there is more discrimination of character in Marlowe's' play than Shakespeare's;... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1885 - 362 pages
...of royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarce improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." There is an edition of Marlowe (1820), which I have never seen, but which Dyce characterizes as abounding... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Drama - 1885 - 304 pages
...furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second, and the death scene of Marlowe's King moves pity and terror beyond any...scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted. The Rich Jew of Malta. — Marlowe's Jew does not approach so near to Shakspeare's, as his Edward the... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Drama - 1885 - 312 pages
...furnished hints, which Shakspeare scarcely improved in his Richard the Second, and the death scene of Marlowe's King moves pity and terror beyond any...scene ancient or modern with which I am acquainted. The Rich Jew of Malta. — Marlowe's Jew does not approach so near to Shakspeare's, as his Edward the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 pages
...which Shakespeare has scarce improved in his Richard the Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's long moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." Both the scenes in question have indeed great merit, still this praise seems to us far beyond the mark.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 1590 pages
...declared that 'the reluctant pangs of abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarce improved in his Richard II. ; and the death-scene...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.' The Massacre at Paris is the weakest of Marlowe's plays, and has descended in a mutilated state. It... | |
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