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Love's Comedy
Love's Comedy by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford Koerlighedens Komedie was published at Christiania in 1862. The polite world-so far as such a thing existed at the time in the Northern capital-received it with an outburst of indignation now entirely easy to understand. It has indeed faults enough. The character-drawing is often crude, the action, though full of effective by-play, extremely slight, and the sensational climax has little relation to human nature as exhibited in Norway, or out of it, at that or any other time. But the sting lay in the unflattering veracity of the piece as a whole; in the merciless portrayal of the trivialities of persons, or classes, high in their own esteem; in ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford)
One of Shakespeare's most frequently performed plays and regarded as maybe his best comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the story of the events surrounding the wedding of Theseus, Duke and Athens, and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta. At the outset of the play we find Hermia, who is in love with Lysander but is betrothed by her father's arrangement to Demetrius. Meanwhile Helena laments her unrequited love of Demetrius. Several parallel and interconnecting plot lines complicate the narrative. One of which is the planning of a play, "Pyramus and Thisbe," to be performed at the wedding. Secondly an element of fantasy is introduced through the story of Oberon, King of the fairies, and his Queen...
Robert Browning
Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford Excerpt CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. PARACELSUS. The Boy sprang up ... and ran, Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.- A Death in the Desert. Dass ich erkenne, was die WeltIm Innersten zusammenhält.- Faust. Judged by his cosmopolitan sympathies and his encyclopædic knowledge, by the scenery and the persons among whom his poetry habitually moves, Browning was one of the least insular of English poets. But he was also, of them all, one of the most obviously and unmistakably English. Tennyson, the poetic mouthpiece of a rather specific and exclusive Anglo-Saxondom, belonged by his Vergilian instincts of style to that main current of European p...
