William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . ing of him when he wrote in Colin Clouts comehome againe : And then, though last not least in Action; A gentler shepheard may no where be found,Whose muse, full of high thoughts invention, Doth, like himselfe, heroically sound. In the Christmas season of 1594 he acted atcourt before Queen Elizabeth, and the fact that hisplays were repeatedly presented in her presenceindicates her liking for his work and her purposeto show him favour. A playwright upon whosewords crowds hung in the Rose and the Globe;whose great passages were recited again and aga
William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . ing of him when he wrote in Colin Clouts comehome againe : And then, though last not least in Action; A gentler shepheard may no where be found,Whose muse, full of high thoughts invention, Doth, like himselfe, heroically sound. In the Christmas season of 1594 he acted atcourt before Queen Elizabeth, and the fact that hisplays were repeatedly presented in her presenceindicates her liking for his work and her purposeto show him favour. A playwright upon whosewords crowds hung in the Rose and the Globe;whose great passages were recited again and againin the palaces at Greenwich, Richmond, and White-chapel ; whose poems, having passed from hand tohand among his friends, appeared in rapidly sue- THE POETIC PERIOD 199. BISHOPSGATE AND LEADENHALL. (See also on the next page.) ceeding editions; to whom many contemporary-writers paid glowing tribute; and who countedamons: his friends some of the most brilliant andinfluential men of his time, can hardly be regardedas having escaped the notice of his age, or as soobscure as to raise the question of his authorshipof the work which bears his name. The lyrical period in the growth of Shakespearesmind and art culminated about 1597 or 1598, andbore its highest fruits in two dramas which hold aplace by themselves; plays essentially poetic inquality and form, and singularly complete in theirdisclosure of the resources of his imagination andhis art. The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet hadattracted him at a very early date; there is evi-dence that he was brooding over this pathetic tale 200 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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