Shakspeare and His Times (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Shakspeare and His Times Shakspeare, it is rich, energetic, passionate, abundant, striking, it readily admits the lofty ¿ights, and even the wild excesses, of the poetic imagination, but it.does not possess that elegant sobriety, that severe and delicate pre cision, that moderation in expression and harmony in im agery, which constitute the peculiar merit of the French language, so that, when Shakspeare passes from England into France, if he is translated with scrupulous fidelity, his defects become more apparent, and more offensive, be neath his new dress, than they were in his native form, and if, on the other hand, it is attempted to adapt his lan guage, even in the slightest degree, to the genius of our tongue, he is inevitably robbed of a great part of his wealth, force, and originality. A literal translation and a free ren: dering do wrong to Shakspeare in a different manner, but in an equal degree. When he is translated, or when he is read in a, translation, it must never be forgotten that he labors under one or other of these disadvantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.