Shakespeare

by Gustav Landauer

Shakespeare's comedies could be divided in the matches where dissolved all earthly gravity in irony, music, dream and spirit magic seems; then include the Midsummer Night's Dream and the storm; also the Merchant of Venice, only that since the Ghostly entirely from the human and natural is contested; and in the pieces, although often in this kingdom protrude whose lightness and gimmick but to Partly be because the poet some rest in them appears not only the problems , but also the implementation easier taking and a bend of the characters, depending on the requirement the plot and stage effects not always forbids; What you want, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing are the most perfect Copies of this genus. For this district into the realm of large, bitter serious comedy lifts All's Well That Ends Well, without the last to achieve perfection. This spectacle is Measure for Measure in more adjacent as one point; but in this case completion is reached, and the turn to sense this game will bring poetry back into the Near the genus human-natural fairy tales of The Merchant Venice represents, only that the merchant tragedy than anything overshadowing episode in the comedy is, while in Measure for Measure whole plot, in the stand all principals to tragic height increases until the apex alleviated the tragedy gradually and in Examination is transformed. The first pressure we have of the piece, is on the folio of 1623. According to a document whose authenticity is not completely fixed, the piece in 1604 would have been listed at the court. The fabric is first found in the same collection of short stories Hecatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio in which the amendment dated finds Moor of Venice; Shakespeare but based also on two works by George Whetstone, the comedy promos and Kassandra (1578 printed), and a short novel, which he in 1582 in the collection ~ Heptameron of civil discourses ~ issued. The original name and locales Cinthios have both Whetstone as then Shakespeare changed. Shakespeare's Duke Vincentio of Vienna is at Cinthio Emperor Maximilian in Innsbruck, at Whetstone King Corvinus of Hungary and Bohemia; the governor is only Juriste and then Promos; our Isabella at Cinthio Epitia in Whetstone Kassandra; in all these versions before Shakespeare has this girl to the rescue her brother's sake actually indulge the governor; and from reshape this main subject, which undertook Shakespeare results, itself, as with the express fabric and inner sense retail and Great has enabled. Measure for Measure has very many who have written about Shakespeare, for the same reason and unpleasant in the same degree and feelings Fix generated as Troilus and Cressida. It has of famous, respected and recognized men heard sentences the play was on _unsrer_ stage not possible; for _unsern_ taste should at such a motive of comic treatment and effect of any speech be; _unser_ moral sense is violated in an intolerable manner; and the usual epithets embarrassing, repulsive, disgusting. With show all this, the write so, only that they are not for Shakespeare are ripe; and that equal in honor and not in verlachtem Schimpf stand, is characteristic of our public and secret States. I say from the outset that I Measure for Measure Shakespeare vortrefflichst built, most powerful, exciting, bühnenwirksamsten, deepest, purest and most mature, freest and deepest cr

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Published July 31, 2016