Hypercriticism exposed; in a letter addressed to the readers of 'The Quarterly review', respecting an article [by O.G. Gilchrist] professing to be an ... dramatica'. By a friend to candour and - Softcover

Jones, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1154470695 ISBN 13: 9781154470697

Publisher: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ... "Playwright (i. e. Ford) by chance, hearing some toys 1 had writ, Cry'd to my face, they were th' elixir of wit, And I must now believe him; for to-day Five of my jests, then stolen, pass'd him a play.' And so, the play which Jive of Berts jests secured from damnation, was the Lady's Trial. The Lady's Trial was performed for the first time at the Cockpit Theatre in May 1038, on the 3d of which month it was licensed by the master of the revels: the epigram on 'Playwright' was printed in Jonson's works, published in l66, and was probably written some years earlier: all this Mr. Jones might have found, and all this Mr. Jones did find, in Reed's edition of Shakspeare (LIf.), which he has quoted in his article on the Lover's Melancholy (LIII.). But where he discovered the charge he must have discerned its refutation (LIV.):--all the falsehood and nonsense, therefore, which he has endeavoured to perpetuate respecting Jonson and Ford, he would (LIT.) The Critic is again mistaken. Mr. Jones adopted the remark from the memoranda of a friend long since deceased. From Mr. Malone's statement, indeed, it appears evident, that the Epigram did not apply to the individual play called The Ladies' Trial: but does it necessarily follow, that, because the Epigram was printed in 16 i 6, it might not be levelled at some unpublished drama of Ford's? who, though he did not begin printing his plays till 16B9, had published a poem as early as l606, and certainly might have written a play in less thaH ten years from that time, at which, or at its author, Jonsou might have taken umbrage. (LIII.) To what does this quotation amount? Mr. Reed, at the end of the article " The Lover's Melancholy" referred to "the" (at that time) "last edition of Shakspeare, vol. i. p. 219-"...

Edition details

• Publisher: RareBooksClub.com
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1154470695
• ISBN 13: 9781154470697
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 18