The True Tragedy of Richard the Third

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Excerpt from The True Tragedy of Richard the Third: To Which Is Appended the Latin Play of Richardus Tertius, by Dr. Thomas Legge, Both Anterior to Shakespeare's Drama, With an Introduction and NotesMalone commences his History of the English Stage by saying that Dryden has truly observed that Shake speare found not, but created first, the stage 1 and the critic then proceeds to produce evidence which shows that this observation is not true, as most certainly it is not. It was in truth (as Mr. Collier more judiciously says) created by no one man, and in no one age, and, Whatever improvements Shakespeare introduced, it will be seen that when he began to write for the theatre, our drama was completely formed and firmly established.2 Bad as the following play is, it is a drama, completely formed, and was regularly acted. If Dryden had said that Shakespeare found the stage of brick, and left it of marble, it would have answered his purpose as well, and would have been nearer to the truth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.