Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, Vol. 14 of 15: Hamlet, And, Othello
If the dramas of Shakspeare, ' says Dr. Johnson, were to be characterised each by the particular ea cellence which distinguishes it from the rest. We must allow to the tragedy of Hamlet the praise of variety. The incidents are so numerous, that the argument of the play would make a long tale. The scenes are interchangeably diversified with merriment and solem nity; with merriment that includes judicious and instructive observations; and solemnity not strained by poetical violence above the natural sentiments of man. New characters appear from time to time in continual succession, exhibiting various terms of life and particular modes of coniversatiou. The pretended madness of Hamlet causes much mirth, the mournful distraction of Ophelia fills the heart with tenderness. And every personage produces the effect intended. From the apparition that in the first act chills the hiood with horror, to the top in the last, that exposes atlectatiou to just contempt.
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