The Lyrical Strain in Shakespeare's Early Dramas

The lyrical strain in Shakespeare's early drama is "brought out "by Chambers in his statement that |"With Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, it (Richard the Second) belongs to the period of a deliberate literary experiment. For the space of a tragedy, a comedy, and a history, Shakespeare essayed to write drama in the lyrical vein, with his singing robe a on, with an abundance of passionate and highly coloured speech, and with the aid of rhyme and other devices of lyrical utterance." |Chambers expresses the opinion that Richard the Second is unlike the history play, Henry the Sixth; A Midsummer Nights Dream is different from that of As You Like It; and Romeo and Juliet is quite dissimilar to that of Hamlet or Macbeth, in that Richard the Second, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet are treated of in light, airy, lyrical passages.

Grantor dc:publisher

Creighton University

Year dc:date.issued

1950

Author dc:creator

• Welch, M. James C.S.J.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Smith, Paul F. S.J.

• Shakespeare

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• A non-exclusive distribution right is granted to Creighton University and to ProQuest following the publishing model selected above.

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en_US

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http://hdl.handle.net/10504/101931

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oai:cdr.creighton.edu:10504/101931