Shakspere An Address Delivered On April 23 1916 in Sanders Theatre At the Re
Shakspere An Address Delivered On April 23 1916 in Sanders Theatre At the Re
George Lyman Kittredge
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He SHAKSPERE 27 eluded analysis because he was too magnifi- cently simple for the analytic process. The criticism of this period busied itself extensively with the great tragic characters or, when turning aside to comedy, it treated the more intellectually significant among the comedy group with a touch of serious- ness which too often robbed them of their lighthearted irresponsibility. Laughter was not the gift of the Romanticist. This tend- ency to what may be called the portentous happened t...o fit the Anglo-Saxon temper, ever propense to revel in seriousness and plunge into debauches of the dismal. It suited our idiosyncrasy also in another way: it opened the door to the deadliest kind of obvious morahzing. Heaven forbid that I should ascribe all these dreadful things to the Romanticists themselves ! They have sins enough of their own to answer for; nor am I undertaking to chronologize sharply, or to control my gen- eralities by the square and plumb-line of footnotes. My point is this: Under their lead, their contemporaries and successors, 28 SHAKSPERE down to very recent times, and in many quarters even now, became more and more inclined to talk about Shakspere, and less inclined to read him; more and more dis- posed to take his characters as texts, as points from which to wander into the land of many inventions.
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