AVOIDING THE PALE MISFEATURED SHADOW. “It is as though Shakespeare, setting out for Arden, where so many excellent poets have lost themselves in affected sentiment, mislaid their common sense in refining on their sensibility, and, in their self-conscious pursuit of nature, found themselves grasping a pale misfeatured shadow, had determined in advance to take with them a guide who should keep him in the path of sanity.” (As You Like It, WS).
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