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Shelley and Shakespeare: An Addendum a Comparison of Othello and The Cenci

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Sara Ruth Watson
Sara Ruth Watson*
Affiliation:
Western Reserve University
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , June 1940 , pp. 611 - 614
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1940

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References

1 David Lee Clark “Shelley and Shakespeare,” PMLA, liv (March, 1939), 261–287.

2 Shelley's Poetical Works (Oxford ed.), “The Cenci,” iii.ii.9–52.

3 Othello (Student Cambridge ed.), v.ii.7–15.

4 It is interesting to note that this image received another expression in Book I of Browning's Ring and the Book:

Man's breath were vain to light a virgin wick,—

Half-burned-out, all but quite-quenched wicks o'the lamp

Stationed for temple-service on this earth,

These indeed let him breathe on and relume!

5 The Cenci, ii.ii. 107–147. The expression “unravelled hopes” in this passage also contributes to the Shakespearean flavor.

6 Ibid., v.i.77–83. The simile of the stage is typically Elizabethan.

7 The Cenci, v.i.56–70; Othello, iv.ii.207–222.

8 The Cenci, i.i.67–90.

9 Othello, i.i.41–65.

10 The Cenci, iii.i.207–223.

11 Othello, iii.iii.460–479.

12 David Lee Clark, op. cit., 287.