Shakespere 12th Night
Twelfth Night Essay
Twelfth Night essay features Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous critique based on his legendary and influential Shakespeare notes and lectures.
Act i. sc. i. Duke's speech:
so full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high fantastical.
WARBURTON'S alteration of is into in is needless. 'Fancy' may very well be interpreted 'exclusive affection,' or 'passionate preference.' Thus, bird-fanciers, gentlemen of the fancy, that is, amateurs of boxing, &c. The play of assimilation,the meaning one sense chiefly, and yet keep-ing both senses in view, is perfectly Shakspearian.
Act. ii. sc. 3. 'Sir Andrew's speech:
An explanatory note on Pigrogromitus would have been more acceptable than Theobald's grand discovery that 'lemon' ought to be 'leman.'
Ib. Sir Toby's speech: (Warburton's note on the Peripatetic philosophy.)
Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch, that will draw three souls out of one weaver?
O genuine, and inimitable......
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