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The interest is scattered among the vast crowd of charac- ters ; and Mr. R. H. Hutton remarked at the time that he " remains something of a cold, cruel, and sensual shadow." We are more interested in Wyatt, Cranmer, Gardiner, and others ; or at least their parts are more interesting. Yet in no case does the interest of any character, except of Mary and Elizabeth, re- main continuous throughout the play. Tennyson himself thought that "the real difficulty of the drama is to give sufficient relief... to its intense sadness. . . • Nothing less than the holy calm of the meek and pen- itent Cranmer can be adequate artistic relief." But not much relief can be drawn from a man about to be burned alive, and history does not tempt us to keen sympathy with the recanting archbishop, at least if we agree with Macaulay rather than with Froude.
I venture to think that historical tradition, as usual, 174 TENNYSON offered a better motive than exact history. Following tradition, we see in Mary a cloud of hateful gloom, from which England escapes into the glorious dawn of " the Gospel light," and of Elizabeth, who might be made a triumphantly sympathetic character.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The interest is scattered among the vast crowd of charac- ters ; and Mr. R. H. Hutton remarked at the time that he " remains something of a cold, cruel, and sensual shadow." We are more interested in Wyatt, Cranmer, Gardiner, and others ; or at least their parts are more interesting. Yet in no case does the interest of any character, except of Mary and Elizabeth, re- main continuous throughout the play. Tennyson himself thought that "the real difficulty of the drama is to give sufficient relief... to its intense sadness. . . • Nothing less than the holy calm of the meek and pen- itent Cranmer can be adequate artistic relief." But not much relief can be drawn from a man about to be burned alive, and history does not tempt us to keen sympathy with the recanting archbishop, at least if we agree with Macaulay rather than with Froude.
I venture to think that historical tradition, as usual, 174 TENNYSON offered a better motive than exact history. Following tradition, we see in Mary a cloud of hateful gloom, from which England escapes into the glorious dawn of " the Gospel light," and of Elizabeth, who might be made a triumphantly sympathetic character.
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