“Throughout the volume the contents give constant evidence of good judgment in the selection of material, while painstaking care is shown in the composition of the text.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ + + Engin. N. 55: 426. Ap. 12, ’06. 1350w.
Kilbourne, Frederick W. Alterations and adaptations of Shakespeare. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The author points out in his study the pronounced change in dramatic taste which differentiates a period from the proceeding one, and then indicates the effect of the belief in different dramatic tenets on the opinion of Shakespeare. He discusses the principles of dramatic art which came to rule and to which the playwrights of the time endeavored to make Shakespeare’s plays conform by means of alteration. Then he describes the altered versions, comments on the modifications, shows whether they have been made according to dramatic theories or whether they are the result of “personal opinions, judgment, or caprice of a reviewer.”
“A useful and convenient handbook to an interesting and somewhat neglected subject.” Henry B. Wheatly.
+ Acad. 71: 491. N. 17. ’06. 2130w.
“The only cheerful element in this necessarily somewhat dismal treatise is the indication of the growth of reverence for the text of Shakespeare in more modern times.”
+ – Nation. 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 130w.
“An interesting little book of some value, doubtless, as a work of reference.”