Pastoral

Yet Rosalind is still, in its way, charming, and an appreciation of its charm may, instead of lessening our reverence for Shakespeare's genius, really increase it by leading us to see, as he did, the freshness and beauty as well as the dramatic possibilities of the story.

Bibliography Anglia, Volume 10, pages 235-289 Bullen, Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, London, 1901 Chambers, English Pastorals, London, 1906 Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction, Revised Edition, London and New York, 1888 Goss, Seventeenth Century Studies, New Edition, London, 1895 Gray, Lodge's Rosalind, Being the Original of Shakespeare's As You Like It, London, 1907 Jussaramt, The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare, London and New York, 1890 Lang, Idols of Theocritus, Bion and Moschis, Golden Treasury Series, London, 1901 Lodge, Reprint of Complete Works, Excepting the Translations of Seneca, Josephus and Dubartac, Glasgow, 1875-1882 Marx, English Pastoral Drama, London, 1908 Saintsburg, Elizabethan Literature, London and New York, 1902 Warren, A History of the English Novel Previous to the Seventeenth Century, New York, 1895 The Published Works of Thomas Lodge Arranged in Chronological Order Note, the titles are given in abbreviated form 1580, question mark, Defense of Plays 1584, An Alarm Against Usurers 1589, Scylla's Metamorphosis Reprinted with a new title page in 1610 as A Most Pleasant History of Glaucus and Scylla 1590, Rosalind 1591, Robert, Second Duke of Normandy 1591, Cattaras 1592, Euphues' Shadow 1593, Phyllis 1593, William Longbeard 1594, The Wounds of Civil War 1594, A Looking Glass for London in collaboration with Green 1595, A Fig for Momus 1596, The Devil Conjurer 1596, A Marguerite of America 1596, Wit's Misery 1596, Prosopopaea 1602, Paradoxes 1602, Works of Josephus 1603, A Treatise of the Plague 1614, The Works of Seneca 1625, A Learned Summary of Dubartas End of Introduction Part 1 of Rosalind by Thomas Lodge This is a LibriVox recording.

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Bullen, Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, London, 1901.

Chambers, English Pastorals, London, 1906.

Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction, revised edition, London and New York, 1888.

Goss, Seventeenth Century Studies, new edition, London, 1895.

It was reserved for Pope to discover the trick, to make himself complete master of it, and to teach it to everybody else.

From the time when his Pastorals appeared, heroic versification became a matter of rule and compass, and before long, all artists were on a level.

Hundreds of dunces who never blundered on one happy thought or expression were able to write reams of couplets, which as far as euphony was concerned, could not be distinguished from those of Pope himself, and which very clever writers of the reign of Charles II, Rochester for example, or Marvell, or Oldham, would have contemplated with admiring despair.

Ben Jonson was a great man.

Born's Antiquities Fulgaras, Newcastle, 1725, 8th volume, page 82.

These circles are thus described by Brown, the author of Britannia's Pastorals.

A pleasant mead, where fairies often did their measures treed, which in the meadows made such circles green, as if with garlands it had crowned been.

Within one of these round was to be seen a hillock rise, where oft the fairy queen at twilight sit, and did command her elves to pinch those maids that had not soaked their shells.