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The Plays and Poems; The Revengers Tragaedie. the Transformed Metamorphosis
The Plays and Poems The Revengers Tragaedie the Transformed Metamorphosis Author:Cyril Tourneur General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Chatto and Windus,$1878. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES TO THE REUENGER'S TRAGDIE. ACT I. This first scene Tourncur modelled no doubt on Clicttle's Hoffman's Tragedy, whore the hero Hoffman is represented as soliloquising over the skeleton of his murdered father and swearing to revenge him. Venici stands of course with the skull of his murdered mistress in his hand, and is doubtless on the upper stage, which was abalcony raised eight or ten feet from the groundsee among many others Middlcton's family of Lfvt, act i. sc. iii., and Dyce's note; also Witch, act iv. sc. iii.), while the other characters pass along the ordinary stage below him. Should stuff?. A necessary emendation for the would of the quartos. A farch'd and jiticclcss lujciir. Luxury was the term used to express incontinence, the Lat. lux- uiia. Cf. Shakespeare, passim, and Middleton's Game of Chess: " In a room fill'd all with Aretine's pictures more than the twelve labours of Luxury;" and Fletcher's Purple Island, vii. 20 : " With sweltering heart in flames of Luxury" Luxttr means therefore a person given to lust or luxury. AnJ V! fiat his father ff!y yfarls told. This lengthened syllable is a trace of the old English still lingeringon; among many other instances see Shakespeare's Rich. //., iii. iii. 9 : " Your Grace mistakes, only to be brief Left I his title out;" and First Part of Henry VI, i. iii. 5 : " Who's there that knockes so imperiously ?" See too Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar, p. 385. Tourneur is fond of it. Cf. infra : " The Dutches sonnes are too proud to bleed." " Not since two houres before noon, my Lord."...« less