It does seem stagey doesn't it?

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It does seem stagey doesn't it? Written by Laraine (1/23/2006 1:07 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Novels and Walpole's pretensions of being Shakespeare, penned by Barbara

Walpole seems to have been a great admirer of Shakespeare, and to set him as the model on which all work should be based. That's not an idea with which I'd quarrel, even if Voltaire did.

The novel is Shakespearean in its five chapters/five acts parallel, and it has soliolquies and what Tom Bertram might call rants :) The omens and portents seem like Greek drama too, but there's definitely MacBeth-like overtones. It's operatic, even, in some of the melodrama.

Walpole did write some drama. I don't know a lot of details, though.

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Novels and Walpole's pretensions of being Shakespeare Barbara (1/23/2006 11:39 a.m.)

Two comments Tate (1/24/2006 11:17 a.m.)
- Some thoughts on # 2. Mandy N (1/24/2006 7:03 p.m.)
the prefaces Emmeline (1/23/2006 2:31 p.m.)
- First edition- Otranto as a medival relic. Mandy N (1/23/2006 5:21 p.m.)
  - When I first read.... Reeba (1/23/2006 5:33 p.m.)
    - I read that too. Emmeline (1/24/2006 5:22 a.m.)
      - Thank you, Emmeline. Reeba (1/24/2006 6:09 a.m.)
    - Yes, I read ... Mandy N (1/23/2006 7:07 p.m.)
    - On the other hand... Reeba (1/23/2006 5:43 p.m.)
      - Scary indeed ! ;) Mandy N (1/23/2006 7:36 p.m.)
- 2nd preface very annoying Margaret H (1/23/2006 3:01 p.m.)
It does seem stagey doesn't it? Laraine (1/23/2006 1:07 p.m.)
- I kept making comparisons to Hamlet Kelley B (1/23/2006 1:36 p.m.)
  - The Count of Narbonne Robbin (1/24/2006 1:58 a.m.)

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