1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
IS96. 1600. having displaced the uncouther comedy, Shakespeare learned all they had to teach, and shaped the comedy of poetic, chivalrous fancy and good-tempered high spirits, which showed him the way of escape from his own rhetoric, and enabled him to perfect his youthful, noble and gentle blank verse. This attained its utmost fineness in Richard II., and its full cordiality and beauty in the other plays that consummate this period — A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and one romantic tragedy, Rome…
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