Los bandos de Verona. Montescos y Capeletes. By Francisco de Rojas y Zorrilla. Englished by F. W. Cosens

Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, F. W. (Frederick William) Cosens

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Los bandos de Verona. Montescos y Capeletes. By Francisco de Rojas y Zorrilla. Englished by F. W. Cosens

1874

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. viii, 42. Contains unnumbered frontispiece illustration. Manuscript inscription “P. L. Dickson 1909” on half title. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The introduction to this Spanish analogue of Romeo and Juliet states: "I have only translated at length such portions of this play as bear some reference to Shakespeare's tragedy" [Romeo and Juliet]. John Payne Collier told J. P. Norris in 1876 that although the translation of this work was by his friend and patron Frederick William Cosens (1819-1889), he had helped him ‘to put it into verse.’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, pp. 960-961, C11.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117280" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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