Excerpt from Ralegh in Guiana: Rosamond and a Christmas MasqueThese essays in dramatic verse are made in a manner common to all the Elizabethan play wrights. The better one knows these writers, the better one understands that they were really translators into terms of speech and action of material which they found in narrative form. Among the reasons which moved me to attempt something in their manner was a desire, when I was lecturing about them, to study their practice experimentally.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.