A First View of English Literature
A First View of English Literature
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— ^The work of this sombre middle period of Shakespeare's life includes several plays on Roman and Greek subjects. In Julius Ccesar, the hero's greatness is presented in a strange inverted way. While Caesar is alive, we see only his human weaknesses and fail- ings; but after he is dead, we are made to feel the majesty of his spirit by the world-wide ruin which follows his re- Digitized by VjOOQIC 114 The Renaissance moval. In another sense, the hero is not Caesar, but Brutus, in whom the poet s...aw a political idealist and generous dreamer, used as a tool by selfish men, who bring over- whelming disaster upon the state by their murder of the only man strong enough to save it. In Antony and Cleopalray Shakespeare showed the character of a great Roman gen- eral, crumbling before the breath of Eastern luxury and sensuality, personified in Cleopatra, the "worm of old Nile." In Troilus and Cressida he drew a picture of faithlessness in love, a picture so cynical, so fierce in its bitterness, that it is almost impossible to think of it as the work of the hand which drew Juliet, Portia and Rosalind; and at the same time he deformed the heroic figures of Homeric legend with savage burlesque.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
— ^The work of this sombre middle period of Shakespeare's life includes several plays on Roman and Greek subjects. In Julius Ccesar, the hero's greatness is presented in a strange inverted way. While Caesar is alive, we see only his human weaknesses and fail- ings; but after he is dead, we are made to feel the majesty of his spirit by the world-wide ruin which follows his re- Digitized by VjOOQIC 114 The Renaissance moval. In another sense, the hero is not Caesar, but Brutus, in whom the poet s...aw a political idealist and generous dreamer, used as a tool by selfish men, who bring over- whelming disaster upon the state by their murder of the only man strong enough to save it. In Antony and Cleopalray Shakespeare showed the character of a great Roman gen- eral, crumbling before the breath of Eastern luxury and sensuality, personified in Cleopatra, the "worm of old Nile." In Troilus and Cressida he drew a picture of faithlessness in love, a picture so cynical, so fierce in its bitterness, that it is almost impossible to think of it as the work of the hand which drew Juliet, Portia and Rosalind; and at the same time he deformed the heroic figures of Homeric legend with savage burlesque.
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