tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post3465810323896214271..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Pramila Khadun writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-14740132693367478032018-09-22T20:42:34.456-07:002018-09-22T20:42:34.456-07:00Othello, Hamlet, and Romeo are 3 characters create...Othello, Hamlet, and Romeo are 3 characters created by William Shakespeare. "The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice" (1603?) was based on "Un Capitano Moro," an Italian story published in 1565 by Cinthio (Giovanni Battista Giraldi). [The same collection, the "Hecatommithi," also contained "The Story of Epitia," the germ of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (1604).] The 19th-century essayist William Hazlitt described Othello as "noble, confiding, tender, and generous; but his blood is of the most inflammable kind;" he blends the various human impulses into a "noble tide of deep and sustained passion, impetuous but majestic."<br /><br />"The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" (ca. 1599-1602) was based on the story of Amlethus, preserved by the 13th-century Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus and subsequently retold by François de Belleforest in 1572; an English version, "The Hystorie of Hamblet," was published in 1608. Hamlet, uncertain if his uncle had killed his father and married his mother, delayed taking his revenge until he was certain. Hazlitt: "he is a young and princely novice, full of high enthusiasm and quick sensibility." <br /><br />"The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet" (ca. 1591-1595) was adapted from Luigi da Porto's 1524 story "Giulietta e Romeo," which was refined by Matteo Bandello in 1554; Pierre Boaistuau translated the Bandello version into French in 1559, which Arthur Brooke translated into English in 1562 as a narrative poem. For Hazlitt, Romeo is Hamlet in love. There is the same rich exuberance of passion and sentiment in the one, that there is of thought and sentiment in the other. Both are absent and self-involved, both live out of themselves in a world of imagination. Hamlet is abstracted from everything; Romeo is abstracted from everything but his love, and lost in it."DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com