The Stratford gallery; . thy wounds do bleed at many vents!Hark, how Troy roars ! how Hecuba cries out!How poor Andromache shrills her dolors forth !Behold, destruction, frenzy, and amazement,Like witless antics, one another meet,And all cry—Hector! Hectors dead! O Hector! Tro. Away!—Away ! Cas. Farewell.—Yet, soft.—Hector, I take my leave :Thou dost thyself, and all our Troy, deceive. The Cassandra of Shakspeare is but a sketch—one of thosehalf-mad sibyls of the East who generally exercised so potent aninfluence over the popular mind, and whose counsels were so highlyesteemed in the worlds ro
The Stratford gallery; . thy wounds do bleed at many vents!Hark, how Troy roars ! how Hecuba cries out!How poor Andromache shrills her dolors forth !Behold, destruction, frenzy, and amazement,Like witless antics, one another meet,And all cry—Hector! Hectors dead! O Hector! Tro. Away!—Away ! Cas. Farewell.—Yet, soft.—Hector, I take my leave :Thou dost thyself, and all our Troy, deceive. The Cassandra of Shakspeare is but a sketch—one of thosehalf-mad sibyls of the East who generally exercised so potent aninfluence over the popular mind, and whose counsels were so highlyesteemed in the worlds romantic age. Her subsequent fate was as 190 CASSANDRA. wretched as the Shakespearian episode of her life is melancholy:according to classical authority, Cassandra was violated by Ajax,one of the Greek heroes, in a sacred temple, whither she had fledwith her maidens for protection when Troy was taken. Falling tothe share of Agamemnon, he Lore her to Mycene, where .theywere both murdered by his wife, THE SHEEW. Katharina was the elder daughter of Baptista Minola, awealthy citizen of Padua. So notorious was she for her violenttemper and unruly tongue, that, although she was handsomelydowered, and very beautiful, not a gallant in the citywas holdenough to take her to wife. But it happened that Petruchio, agentleman from Verona, having fallen into possession of his prop-erty by the death of his father, had come to wive it wealthily inPadua, where certain lovers of Bianca, Katharinas sister, whowere interested in the marrying of the Shrew—inasmuch as Bap-tista would not think of wedding his younger daughter first—in-formed Petruchio of this most excellent chance for him to get arich wife, as he had declared to them that only riches were indis-pensable to his choice. So he straightway went to Baptista and made proposals forKatharina, which were accepted, on condition that the youngsignior should find favor with the Shrew. Katharina did not failto treat her
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