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236.
and - surprisingly - Imogen's discovery of the
headless corpse:
written as if Shakespeare were now only
moderately interested in certain portions
of his dramatic work.
(Shakespeare -- His Mind and Art /T8757. p. 404.)
17. William Richardson, ."Ss say a. ..on Shakespeare's Dramatic
Characters (sixth edition, 1812), pp.338f.: ("the
quotation is from Essay X, "On Shakespeare's Imitation
of Female Characters"). Of. H.N. Hudson's remark in
his Lectures " on Shakespeare ——— (2 vols, New York 1848)
To say, then, that Shakespeare's women,
according to this view of the matter, are
inferior to his men, is merely to say they
are women, as tuey ought to be, and not uen,
as he meant they should not be, and as we have
reason to rejoice they are not.
Indeed, Hudson adds, if Shakespeare had not been clearsighted
with regard to the difference between men and
women ,
He covild not have given us characters of either
sex, but only wretched and disgusting medlies
and caricatures of both, such as some people,
it is thought, are in danger of becoming, (p. 194).
In The Genesis of Shakespeare Idolatry (New York, 1364:
first published 1931) R.w. Jab cock places nichardson
in the context of other 13th Oentury "psycholo c ;;izers"
of Shakespeare (ch. XII) and iu his earlier article,
"William Richardson's Criticise of Ghakespeare"
(J.y.Gr.:. . XXVIII /January 192^7 117-136), provides a
bibliographical analysis of the editions of Richardson's
essays. See also Joseph W. Donohue, Jr., Dramatic
Character in the Sn^lish Romantic Age (Princeton, 1970)
pp. 201-5-
18. Shakespeare's Heroines (1379) pp.338f. In the
Introductory Dialogue Alda says of Lady iacbeth's
womanhood -
Richard /Tll7 says of himself, that he has
"neither pity, love, nor fear": Lady Macbeth
is susceptible of all three.
(p.l6f.)
19. Shakespeare's Heroines (1879) p. 222. Compare Wolfgang
"s 'i emends remarks in The Development of Shakespeare's
Imagery (1953) ch.21: The decorative, euphuistic nature
of much of the play's language had been noted by
iranville-^arker in his Preface to the play -