[Gutenberg 1123] • Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Excerpt from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Vol. 3 of 9: As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well That Ends Well; Twelfth-Night, or What You Will; The Winter's Tale

The pastoral-heroic romance of Lodge is a bright piece of Renaissance decorative work but it could hardly claim the attention of readers of the present day did it not come thus into close connexion with Shakespeare's exquisite comedy. The writer 'of Rosalynde had not quite reached mid-manhood when amid the tumbling seas'he wrote his tale of Arden forest.. Afterwards he grew into a serious, elderly physician, translated Seneca's moral and scientific writings, was learned in the treatment of the plague, and seems to have dabbled in intrigue on behalf of his Roman Catholic fellows in'days when they were hardly dealt with in England.

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