Transforming Shakespeare

About this book

I begin with a familiar text, Thomas Heywood's rave review of "our domesticke hystories": What English blood, seeing the person of any bold English man presented and doth not hugge his fame, and hunnye at his at his valor, pursuing him in his enterprise with his best wishes, and as being wrapt in contemplation, offers to him in his hart all prosperous performance, as if the Personator were the man Personated, so bewitching a thing is lively and well spirited action, that it hath power to new mold the harts of the spectators and fashion them to the shape of any noble and notable attempt.