Specimens of English Dramatic Poets
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Excerpt from Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare, With the Extracts From the Garrick Plays In the quaint little Autobiography which Lamb wrote in 1827, after giving a modestly incomplete list of his ´Works ´ (including those he had left behind him at the India House), he adds with an air of just satisfaction, He also was the first to draw the public attention to the old English Dramatists in a work called Specimens of English Dramatic Writers who lived about the Time of Shakspeare, published about fifteen years since In reality nineteen years had elapsed, for the book was issued in 1808, The preparation of the material for publication had engaged his attention during 1807 and a part of 1808, but of letters written while it was going on, only five have come down to us, and in only one of them is the book even mentioned. Notwithstanding the scantiness of our direct information, however, the history of the work may easily be gathered from published correspondence. This opens in May, 1796, with the rich series of letters addressed to Coleridge, many passages in which show that the writer was already, at the beginning of his twenty-first year, deeply read in the works of some of ´ the dramatists who lived about the time of Shakspeare In June he transcribed for Coleridge´s benefit passages from A Wife for a Month, Bonduca, A Very Woman, and The Two Noble Kinsmen, taken from ´a little extract-book I keep, which is full of quotations, from Beaumont and Fletcher in particular, in which authors I can´t help thinking there is a greater richness of poetical fancy than in any one, Shakspeare excepted... I mean not to lay myself open by saying they exceed Milton, and perhaps Collins in sublimity. But don´t yon conceive all poets, after Shakspeare, yield to ´em in variety of genius? Massinger treads close on their heels; but you are most probably as well acquainted with his writings as your humble servant´. Three months later the shock occasioned by a real tragedy in his own family quenched all appetite for the fictitious. 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.
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