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JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW : consisting of Criticisms upon, Analyses of, and Extracts from, Curious, Useful, Valuable, and Scarce Old Books.
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MISCELLANEA GRAPHICA. A Collection of Ancient Medieval and Renaissance Remains in the possession of Lord Londesborough. Illustrated by F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A., &c. The Work will be published in Quarterly Parts of royal 4to., with each Part containing 4 Plates, one of which will be in Chromolithography; representing Jewellery, Antique Plate, Arms and Armour, and Miscellaneous Antiquities.
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Notes.
GOSSIPING HISTORY.
"This is the Jew That Shakspeare drew."
I do not know by whom or when the above couplet was first imputed to Pope. The following extracts will show how a story grows, and the parasites which, under unwholesome cultivation, adhere to it. The restoration of Shakspeare's text, and the performance of Shylock as a serious part, are told as usual.
"In the dumb action of the trial scene he was amazingly descriptive, and through the whole displayed such unequalled merit, as justly entitled him to that very comprehensive, though concise, compliment paid to him by Mr. Pope, who sat in the stage-box on the third night of the reproduction, and who emphatically exclaimed,--
'This is the Jew That Shakspeare drew.'"
The book is ill-written, and no authorities are cited.
"Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a gentleman in the pit, that he as it were involuntarily exclaimed, 'This is,' &c. It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope."
I am not aware of its alteration during the next forty years, but this was the state of the anecdote in 1853:
'That's the Jew that Shakspeare drew.'
'This is the Jew, That Shakspeare drew.'
The speaker was Alexander Pope, and, in that age, from his judgment in criticism there was no appeal."
No reference to cotemporary testimony is given by these historians.
Pope was at Bath on the 4th of February, 1741, as appears from his letter to Warburton of that date; but as he mentions his intention to return to London, he may have been there on the 14th. That he was not in the pit we may be confident; that he was in the boxes is unlikely. His health was declining in 1739. In his letter to Swift, quoted in Croly's edition, vol. i. p. lxxx., he says:
H. B. C.
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