Bussy d'Ambois and the Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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George chapman was probably born in the year after Elizabeth's accession. Anthony Wood gives 1557 as the date, but the inscrip tion on his portrait, prefixed to the edition of The Whole Works of Homer in 1616, points to 1559. He was a native of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, as we learn from an allusion in his poem Euthymia' Raptus or The Teares of Peace, and from W. Browne's reference to him in Britannia's Pastorals as the learned shepheard of faire Hitching Hill. According to Wood in 1574. Or thereabouts, he being well grounded in school learning was sent to the Univer sity. Wood is uncertain whether he went first to Oxford or to Cambridge, but he is sure, though he gives no authority for the statement, that Chapman spent some time at the former where he was observed to be most excellent in the Latin Greek tongues, but not in logic or philosophy, and therefore I presume that that was the reason why he took no degree there.

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In this volume an attempt is made for the first time to edit Bussy DA mbois and The Revenge of Bussy WA mbois in a manner suitable to the requirements of modern scholarship. Of the relations of this edition to its predecessors some details are given in the Notes on the Text of the two plays. But in these few prefatory words I should like to call attention to one or two points, and make some acknowledgments. The immediate source of Bussy DA mbois still remains undiscovered. But the episodes in the career of Chapman shero, vouched for by contemporaries like Brantome and Marguerite of Valois, and related in some detail in my I ntroduction, are typical of the material which the dramatist worked upon. And an important clue to the spirit in which he handled it is the identification, here first made, of part of Bussy sdying speech with lines put by Seneca into the mouth of Hercules in his last agony on Mount CE ta. The exploits of DA mbois were in Chapman simaginative vision those of a semi-mythical hero rather than of a Frenchman whose life overlapped with his own. On the provenance of The Revenge of Bussy DA mbois I have been fortunately able, with valuable assistance from others, to cast much new light. In an article in The A thenceum, Jan.
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