Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...share In this perversion of Shakespeare was verv small so far as actual composition was concerned, and was chiefly confined to arrangement for the stage.' This is goIng to the other extreme and Ip taking too favourable a view of Dryden's participation In the 'perversion.' H i p p o l i t o, who had never seen a woman. Hippolito is fhe rightful heir to the Dukedom of Mantua, which has been usurped by Alonzo, who in the present play is Duke of Savoy, and not King of Naples as in Shakespeare. Hippolito, who as a child had been entrusted to the care of Prospero, had been put into the same boat as that in which Prospero had been cast adrift by his brother Antonio. He had been brought up on the Island by Prospero, who, however, had kept him in ignorance of the presence of any other human beings. As Miranda was already destined for Ferdinand, it was necessary to create another woman for Hippolito. This is done by giving Prospero another daughter, D o r i n d a, and by increasing the time of Prospero's exile from twelve to fifteen years, so that both girls might be of a marriageable age.. In order to complete the scheme of "Counterparts," Caliban is furnished with a sister, Sycorax, a monster as ugly as himself. Ariel, too, has a female counterpart, M i I c h a, waiting for him in the spirit-world. The characters of Sebastian, Alonzo's brother, and the two. lords, Francisco and Adrian, have been dispensed with. Stephano and Trincalo are made respectively master and boatswain of the ship in place of Shakespeare's special characters for those positions, and two new characters appear in Mustacho, th e mate, and Ventoso, a mariner. The reduction of Shakespeare's, plot consists in the omission, of Antonio and Sebastian's conspiracy for the...
