Sidelights on Shakespeare, Being Studies of the Two Noble Kinsmen: Henry VIII, Arden of Feversham, a Yorkshire Tragedy, the Troublesome Reign of King ... Pericles Prince of Tyre (Classic Reprint)

The author of theseS idelights onS hakespeare is a skilful and adroit disputant; further, he is fair-minded and sincere, having but one aim to seek and find the truth. The late F. G. Fleay was aS hakespearean scholar of extraordinary acuteness, but we sometimes feel in reading him that he is more disposed to indulge a vein of freakish ingenuity than to strive after accuracy. I well remember that on one occasion, when I objected to some peculiarly farfetched theory of his, he protested that it was not to be taken seriously but was intended as a skit on theN ewS hakspere Society; whereupon I reminded him of the fact (which he had forgotten) that he originally announced this theory in a school-edition of King John (when he was headmaster of Skipton Grammar School); and I mildly expostulated with him for mystifying schoolboys. Mr. Sykes will not allow thatS hakespeare was in any way concerned with the authorship ofT heT woN oble Kinsmen or Henry VIII. Nearly forty years ago Robert Boyle maintained that those two plays were written by Massinger andF letcher in collaboration. In the early eighties on the occasion of one of his rare visits toE ngland (he lived atS t. Petersburg, where he was tutor to the late Czar Nicholas II of unhappy memory), he called on me at Hampstead and we then discussed The Two Noble Kinsmen.
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