The Age of Dryden
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All the editions have Platonic, but this must be a misprint.
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It is strange that Macaulay, who had told this story so graphically in his History, should have forgotten it when he came to write the Life of Atterbury. No English bishop, he says, had been taken into custody between the Seven Bishops and Atterbury, overlooking Sprat.
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A correspondent of the Athenaeum has pointed out, but the discovery seems to have been hardly noticed, that Shakespeare took the name of Ophelia from Sanazzaro’s Arcadia– another argument for his acquaintance with Italian.
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Fox thought that Shakespeare’s reputation would have stood higher if he had never written Hamlet!