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HENRY V. . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Partly from Italian. AS YOU LIKE IT Lodge's Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie. TWELFTH NIGHT B. Riche's Apolonius and Silla. THIRD PERIOD 1602-1608 JULIUS CÆSAR North's Plutarch. OTHELLO Cinthio's Hecatommithi. LEAR do. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA North's Plutarch. CORIOLANUS do.
All soft and sweet the Maid appears, With Looks that know no Art, And though she yields with trembling Fears, She yields with all her Heart. See, Sir, the Cloud of Foreigners appears, French, English, Spaniards, Danes, Turks, Russians, Indians, and the nearer Climes of Christendom; and lastly, Sir, behold the mighty Emperor. Cinthio's Train born by four Cupids.
The mere rough detail of Shakspere's 'Othello' is to be found in Cinthio's Collection of Novelle; but let an unprejudiced reader peruse the original, and he will be no more deeply affected by it than by any touching story of treachery, jealousy, and hapless innocence.
Bellemante, Harlequin, Cinthio's Man, Mr. Jevern. Officer and Clerk. Elaria, Daughter to the Doctor, Mrs. Cooke. Bellemante, Niece to the Doctor, Mrs. Mumford. Florinda, Cousin to Elaria and Bellemante. Mopsophil, Governante to the young Ladies, Mrs. Cory. The Persons in the Moon, are Don Cinthio, Emperor; Don Charmante, Prince of Thunderland.
It was from Whetstone, a contemporary English writer, that Shakespeare derived the outline of Cinthio's "rare history" of Promos and Cassandra, one of that numerous class of Italian stories, like Boccaccio's Tancred of Salerno, in which the mere energy of southern passion has everything its own way, and which, though they may repel many a northern reader by a certain crudity in their colouring, seem to have been full of fascination for the Elizabethan age.
I was like to have run mad once, reading Sir John Mandevil; but to the business, I went, as you know, to Don Cinthio's Lodgings, where I found him with his dear Friend Charmante, laying their Heads together for a Farce. Ela. Farce! Scar. Ay, a Farce, which shall be call'd, The World in the Moon: Wherein your Father shall be so impos'd on, as shall bring matters most magnificently about. Ela.
His play, Promos and Cassandra, translated from Cinthio's Hecatomithi, was used by Shakespeare in Measure for Measure. Philosopher, theologian and mathematician, s. of a joiner at Lancaster, where he was b., ed. at Camb., where he had a brilliant career.
The girls are, however, secretly assisted in their amours by Scaramouch, the doctor's man, who is himself a rival of Harlequin, Cinthio's valet, for the hand of Mopsophil, duenna to the young ladies. Harlequin, hoping to find his way to his mistress, gets to Bellemante's chamber but when she appears conceals himself.
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