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Shelley and Shakespeare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

David Lee Clark
David Lee Clark*
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University of Texas
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Extract

The purpose of this paper is to point out the extent of Shelley's knowledge of Shakespeare and his indebtedness to, him. Students of Shelley have merely assumed that both were considerable; but, so far as I know, this is the first systematic statement of the facts.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , March 1939 , pp. 261 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1939

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References

1 Hamlet, i. 5. 15–22.—Note: All references to the Poetical Works of Shelley and of Shakespeare are to the revised Oxford Standard editions, 1933, and n.d., respectively.

2 i, 419.

3 iv, 3. 66–69.

4 ii. 2. 306–312.

5 The Poems of the Shelley, in two volumes (1911), i, 619.

6 v. 3. 8–19.

7 Compare Troilus and Cressida, i. 2. 158; Richard III, i. 3. 354; i. 4. 246.

8 v. 3. 99.

9 Julian Edition, iii, 344.

10 i. 5. 99–101.

11 iii. 2. 75–77.

12 i. 2. 158.

13 ii. 2. 61–64.

14 Hamtel, ii. 2. 265.

15 Romeo and Juliet, v. 3.102–105.

16 iv. 5. 183–184.

17 v. S. 24–26.

18 ii. 22–23.

19 ii, 464.

20 ii. 2. 6–8. These lines should be compared with a passage in All's Well, i. 1. 71–73.

21 ii, 473,

22 iii. 4. 94–96.

23 Ingpen, Shelley in England, pp. 458–460.

24 Life of Shelley, ii, 62.

25 i. 3. 48.

26 v. 1. 239.

27 ii. 1. 154–175.

28 i. 4. 79–81.

29 ii. 2. 312–314.

30 i. 3. 149–150.

31 ii. 2. 316–331.

32 Troilus and Cressida iii. 3. 175.

33 Richard III, i. 1. 1.

34 ii, 471.

35 iii. 1. 84–85.

36 i. 3. 75–80.

37 iii. 1. 270–274.

38 v. 5. 19–23.

39 i. 1. 114–125.

40 ii. 2. 14–20.

41 Locock, ii, 471.

42 Lear, iii. 2. 4.

43 v. 5. 19–23.

44 ii. 1. 32–43.

45 iii. 4. 11–14; 66–67.

46 i. 2. 129–130.

47 King Lear, v. 3. 8–19.

48 i. 1. 8.

49 ii. 2. 109.

50 ii. 2. 313; iii. 4. 67.

51 Shelley Notebook, ii, 95–106.

52 iv. 4. 168–172.

53 iv. 2. 240–241.

54 i. 2. 103–107.

55 ii. 1. 56–60.

56 iii. 4. 96–98.

57 i. 1. 124, 172–173; ii. 1. 51–58.

58 ii. 2. 1; iii. 5. 136–140.

59 i. 131–132; iii. 1. 78–83.

60 i. 4. 298–313; ii. 4, 164–166, 167–170, 274–278, 281–285.

Compare the Demon's speech as translated by Shelley in Calderon's The Wonderful Magician:

“Make thee a victim of my baffled rage.
For I will mask a spirit in thy form
Who will betray thy name to infamy,
And doubly will I triumph in thy loss,
First by dishonouring thee, and then by turning
False pleasure to ignomy.“