. GREEMi HIS SHROUD COMPOSING. {From " The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare" by J. J. Jusserand.) SO Shakespeare makes Leontes send to consult the Oracle on his own initiative, not (like Pandosto) at the request of his queen on her first appearance before her judges. Drama often needs thus to compress a story which there is room in a narrative to expand. Again, in the first scene of all, Archidamus—Shake- speare's own creation—is introduced merely to gather up in dialogue with Camillo, the opening passages of the novel, to define the starting-point of the play. And so of
. GREEMi HIS SHROUD COMPOSING. {From " The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare" by J. J. Jusserand.) SO Shakespeare makes Leontes send to consult the Oracle on his own initiative, not (like Pandosto) at the request of his queen on her first appearance before her judges. Drama often needs thus to compress a story which there is room in a narrative to expand. Again, in the first scene of all, Archidamus—Shake- speare's own creation—is introduced merely to gather up in dialogue with Camillo, the opening passages of the novel, to define the starting-point of the play. And so of all the slight divergences from the plot of the novel in these first three acts, we maj- say with truth that they are due to the requirements of drama, save perhaps in two instances—the additions, namely, of the characters of Antigonus and of his wife Paulina. Paulina's function in the play is really to bring about a conclusion quite different from that of the novel; at her home, Hermione will be hidden to
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