The Pleasant Comedie Of Old Fortunatus PDF Download

Excerpt from Old Fortunatus: A Play The Play and the Characters. Dekker has rightly been styled as, next to Shakespeare, the most poetically romantic of all the great Elizabethans. Had he not been obliged to write from first to last at fever-heat, had he not been compelled to wage a constant war with want, and had leisure been allowed him to work out his richly poetic fancies, he would have stood infinitely higher than he does, and we should not have to deplore so many lapses into fustian and rhodomontade. But he was a true child of his era, and lived from hand to mouth, always maintaining, however, his gay insouciance and trust in the future. Saintsbury's remarks on Dekker in his Short Blistery of English Literature are eminently sympathetic yet critically accurate. Dekker displays in his plays a most charming dramatic genius, a little, as is the wont of the time, chaotic and irregular, but sweet and pathetic, as is in no contemporary save the master of all, especially in the delineation of women's characters, while he has both blank verse and lyric touches and flashes not seldom well sustained of divinest poetry.' The comedy of Old Fortunatus, though containing numberless faults in construction, in weak and ineffective character-drawing. 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.