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The sacrifice of the Queen to ease her husband, and the final restoration, being the two main points of contact with Euripides' version of the story, compare with these the stories of Alkestis told by William Morris in 'The Earthly Paradise, 'June'; 'The Love of Alcestis, by Emma Lazarus, in 'Admetos, 'Poems, vol. i.; by Robert Browning in 'Balustion's Adventure; by Longfellow in 'The Golden Legend. See also articles in Poet-lore, 'The Alkestis of Euripides and of Browning, July, 1890; 'Old and New Ideals of Womanhood'; 'The Iphigenia' and 'Alkestis Stories, May, 1891; 'Longfellow's Golden Legend and its Analogues, February, 1892.
As a rule, there is no morality in folk-lore; stories with morals belong to the later and more artificial stage of poet-lore. Homiletical folk-lore, of course, stands on a different basis. Now, in the Yalkut version of the fox and the lion fable, all that we are told is, "The fox saw the ass's heart; he took it, and ate it." But Berechiah leaves us in no doubt as to the fox's motive.
"Old Robin Hood of England." What are the legends concerning him? 3. The archaic words in the play. Sinclair Korner's 'Shakespeare's Inheritance from the Fourteenth Century, in Poet-lore, Vol. Is the opposition shown in the play between life at court and in the country truly shown to be to the advantage of the country.
Notice the high and pure character of their love as shown in the facts that Florizel did not find it fitting to buy pedler's "knacks" for Perdita, a trait not in Greene. Compare these two lovers with Ferdinand and Miranda in "The Tempest." For suggestions see Poet-lore, April, 1891.
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