A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne
A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne
Ward, Adolphus William, Sir, 1837-1924
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Alexander (afterwards Earl of Stirling)'s Alexandraean Tragedy (1605), act V. sc. z, AristoUe compares the world to *a tenis-court Where fortune doth play states, tosse men for balls.' Digitized by Google 538 ENGUSH DRAMATIC LITERATURE [ch. The characters are very multifarious, including, besides various allegorical and mytholc^cal personages, such old friends as the Devil and the Nine Worthies. MuUUtoH's Middleton's rank among our dramatists has been the ^^J^J^** subject of dispute among the f...ew critics who have hitherto bestowed much attention upon this unduly n^lected author ; but it is quite unnecessary to construct tables of precedence in surveying any period or department of literature. The modesty with which Middleton himself appears to have abstained from any endeavour to assert his claims to fame or eminence of any kind pleads in his favour, and it may be asserted without fear of objection that he possessed not a few among the many qualities which constitute a dramatist of the order next to the highest.
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