Recreations of a Recluse

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 - 174 pages
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TOO STRANGE FOR FICTION, NOT TOO STRANGE TO BE TRUE. When the merrily malicious conspirators in Twelfth Night have succeeded, to the top of their bent, in befooling Malvolio, and making him go all lengths in extravagant conceit, one of them, Sir Toby, almost doubts his own eyes, while another, Fabian, protests that, were the thing produced in a play, it would seem too utterly improbable for acceptance. Is't possible ? is Sir Toby Belch's incredulous exclamation, his note of admiration and interrogation in one, at the preposterous procedure of my lady's steward. And Fabian's equal amusement and amazement find vent in the assertion, If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. Hermione, in the Winter's Tale, recounting her wrongs before the king her husband's high court of justice, declares them to be so great, that, in effect, they too, if played upon a stage, might be condemned as a too improbable fiction. Her present unhappiness, she asserts, is Than history can pattern, though devised And play'd, to take spectators. Shakspeare's Duke of Norfolk, again, in his description of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and of the presence and prowess there of the two kings, equal in lustre, works it up to this climax: When these suns (For so they phrase them) by their heralds challenged The noble spirits to arms, they did perform Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story, Being now seen possible enough, got credit, That Bevis was believed. Buckingham. 0, you go far. Nor. As I belong to worship, and affect In honour honesty, the tract of everything Would by a good discourser lose some life, Which action's self was tongue to. To apply Horatio's exclamation: Before my God, I might not this beli...

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