Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . w have an opportunity to do. The author had been writing a number of plays founded on Englishhistory, and his mind had been crowded with mighty themes, — of kingsand courts and camps, — and we may well believe that it was strainedand weary. So, by way of recreation perhaps, he painted this lovelypicture of life in the woods. For it would almost seem that, in writingit, Shakespeare himself had escaped from his cares into
Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . w have an opportunity to do. The author had been writing a number of plays founded on Englishhistory, and his mind had been crowded with mighty themes, — of kingsand courts and camps, — and we may well believe that it was strainedand weary. So, by way of recreation perhaps, he painted this lovelypicture of life in the woods. For it would almost seem that, in writingit, Shakespeare himself had escaped from his cares into the forest ofArden, and there, stretched out under the greenwood tree, was join-ing in the merry strains of his own princely foresters,— Who doth ambition shun, And loves to live in the sun,Come hither, come hither, come hither. 8o INTRODUCTION. And there is not one of us that would not be glad to accept the invi-tation, — nay, who does not feel, as he reads, that he has already acceptedit, and is chasing the wild deer, or roaming the shady forest, with thesunlight darting through the boughs, the breeze bathing his forehead,and the stream murmuring in his
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