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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...he says that worse attempts, indeed, no man of transcendent genius has ever made. It is only as the tertiary work of a transcendent genius that they continue in all ages to find carious readers. Yet, save in the cases of some fanatical biographers, no one can be found to say a good word for them--the Numancia always excepted. His own countrymen have been the foremost to revolt; and the loyal Lampillas has been driven desperately to assert that the publishers suppressed Cervantes' comedies, and substituted forged rubbish instead. It would be difficult to point to a stronger instance of the credulity of hero-worship.1 1 As an example of Cervantes' carelessness about trifles, it may be noted that he had forgotten the name of this piece when he wrote the Viaje del Parnaso, where he styles it Los tratos de Anjel (Adjunta). When Cervantes' plays appeared, the drama in Spain, as the distinguished writer above quoted has said, was scarcely accounted as literature. Plays were not serious things, in any sense; they were but the playthings of an hour, elegant trifles, mere cosas de entretenimiento. And so Cervantes himself would seem to have regarded them. They were to him so many vehicles for the utterance of his personal feelings, his likings, his resentments, his individual impressions of men and things: and, as such, every stroke in them is of pleasing interest. This is not to say that he was not proud of his dramatic work; no man admired it half as much as he did. No music was sweeter to his ears than the hoarse applause of the mosqueteros of the pit. No man was more sublimely confident of the sincerity of his own mission; no man more certain that he deserved success. Years afterwards, when he had found his true way, when the fame of the author...

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