Is Shakespeare's framing of the plot of 'As You Like It' not to be
admired, because it is borrowed?


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THE MUSIC OF THE PLAY

This may consist of a brief paper on the subject illustrated by a
program of the songs with the old and more modern settings. (See New
Shakespeare Society's Papers, on this subject; 'Shakespeare and
Music,' by E.W. Naylor.)




TWELFE NIGHT


The winsomeness of this poetic comedy rightly makes the reader or the
hearer hesitate to count its petals or scrutinize the stages of its
growth, which are marked by its acts as symmetrically as leaf buds are
ranged about a stalk. And yet, one may find that to take note of such
beautiful orderliness in the delicate structure and sprightly
blossoming of the poet's design enhances the appreciation of its
artistic quality. Regarding it first as a whole, sum up the stages of
the action, first; then the caprices its allusions denote; then the
characters; and finally the poetic fancy and wit exhaled by the whole
play like a fragrance.