...abdicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarce improved in his Richard t/le Second ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." Both the scenes in question have indeed great merit, but this praise seems to me far beyond the mark....

..."certainly superior " to a parallel scene in Shakespeare's Richard II. Charles Lamb said " the death scene of Marlowe's King moves pity and terror beyond any scene ancient or modern.'' And of the play of Doctor Faustus the writer in the Encyclopedia Britannica* says: Few masterpieces...

...writer whatever." This is high praise, but it is more than confirmed by the verdict of Lamb,* who says " the death-scene of Marlowe's King moves pity and terror...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." But, if I may presume to speak after such authorities, the pity and terror foil to exalt the character...

...feeling that he was happy in his work. Yet Lamb was hardly extravagant in saying that " the death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." His tragedy of " Dido, Queen of Carthage," is also regularly plotted out, and is also somewhat tedious....

...pangs of alxlicating royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarce improved in his Rkhard II. ; and the death-scene of Marlowe's king moves...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...

...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...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...

...of the most delicate and most luminous of dramatic critics, remarks of Edward II : " The death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." And Mr. Swinburne, himself a poet, and one of the greatest of living literary critics, asserts that...

...feeling that he was happy in his work. Yet Lamb was hardly extravagant in saying that " the death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." His tragedy of " Dido, Queen of Carthage," is also regularly plotted out, and is also somewhat tedious....

...feeling that he was happy in his work. Yet Lamb was hardly extravagant in saying that " the death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." His tragedy of " Dido, Queen of Carthage," is also regularly plotted out, and is also somewhat tedious....

...feeling that he was happy in his work. Yet Lamb was hardly extravagant in saying that " the death scene of Marlowe's king moves pity and terror beyond any...scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted." His tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, is also regularly plotted out, and is also somewhat tedious....