[Gutenberg 52012] • Shakespeare (Volume 1 of 2) / Dargestellt im Vorträgen

Shakespeare's comedies could be divided in the matches where

dissolved all earthly gravity in irony, music, dream and spirit magic

seems; then include the Midsummer Night's Dream and the storm; also the

Merchant of Venice, only that since the Ghostly entirely from the human

and natural is contested; and in the pieces, although often in

this kingdom protrude whose lightness and gimmick but to

Partly be because the poet some rest in them

appears not only the problems , but also the implementation easier

taking and a bend of the characters, depending on the requirement

the plot and stage effects not always forbids; What you

want, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing are the most perfect

Copies of this genus. For this district into the realm of large,

bitter serious comedy lifts All's Well That Ends Well, without the last

to achieve perfection. This spectacle is Measure for Measure in more

adjacent as one point; but in this case completion is reached,

and the turn to sense this game will bring poetry back into the

Near the genus human-natural fairy tales of The Merchant

Venice represents, only that the merchant tragedy than anything

overshadowing episode in the comedy is, while in Measure for Measure

whole plot, in the stand all principals to tragic height

increases until the apex alleviated the tragedy gradually and in

Examination is transformed.

The first pressure we have of the piece, is on the folio

of 1623. According to a document whose authenticity is not completely fixed,

the piece in 1604 would have been listed at the court.

The fabric is first found in the same collection of short stories

Hecatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio in which the amendment dated

finds Moor of Venice; Shakespeare but based also on

two works by George Whetstone, the comedy promos and Kassandra

(1578 printed), and a short novel, which he in 1582 in the collection

~ Heptameron of civil discourses ~ issued. The original name

and locales Cinthios have both Whetstone as then

Shakespeare changed. Shakespeare's Duke Vincentio of Vienna is at

Cinthio Emperor Maximilian in Innsbruck, at Whetstone King Corvinus

of Hungary and Bohemia; the governor is only Juriste and then

Promos; our Isabella at Cinthio Epitia in Whetstone Kassandra; in

all these versions before Shakespeare has this girl to the rescue

her brother's sake actually indulge the governor; and from

reshape this main subject, which undertook Shakespeare results,

itself, as with the express fabric and inner sense retail and

Great has enabled.

Measure for Measure has very many who have written about Shakespeare,

for the same reason and unpleasant in the same degree and feelings

Fix generated as Troilus and Cressida. It has of famous,

respected and recognized men heard sentences like: the play was

on *unsrer* stage not possible; for *unsern* taste should at

such a motive of comic treatment and effect of any speech

be; *unser* moral sense is violated in an intolerable manner;

and the usual epithets are: embarrassing, repulsive, disgusting. With

show all this, the write so, only that they are not for Shakespeare

are ripe; and that equal in honor and not in verlachtem

Schimpf stand, is characteristic of our public and secret

States.

I say from the outset that I Measure for Measure Shakespeare

vortrefflichst built, most powerful, exciting,

bühnenwirksamsten, deepest, purest and most mature, freest and

deepest cr