Novels and Plays
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Famous quotes containing the words novels and/or plays:
“I have just opened Bacons Advancement of Learning for the first time, which I read with great delight. It is more like what Scotts novels were than anything.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. With Shakespeare it is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)