Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

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Excerpt from Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: With an Appendix, Containing Some Further Observations on Shakespeare, Extended to the Late Editions of Malone and Steevens There is a tide in the fame, as well as the affairs of men, and this tide has flowed, for these thirty years past, with amazing rapidity, in favour of Shakespeare. The transcendent theatrical powers of Garrick, the judgment and authority of Johnson, the industry and abilities of Malone and Steevens, assisted by the ingenious suggestions of several others, who were not professed commentators, have raised his works to a degree of celebrity which they never attained at any former period, and he now shines forth, with a blaze of splendor, which has cast into the shade every other ancient dramatic writer, even those who were formerly his rivals in excellence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.