Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Daily Dose


From Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb

SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES

"When a giant is shown to us, does it detract from the curiosity to be told that he has at home a gigantic brood of brethren, less only than himself?"

From Lamb's note to The Two Angry Women of Abingdon, A Comedy, by Henry Porter, 1599

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