Show The supreme excellence of the Eliza bethan literature Is in the purely objective ob-jective character and the most perfect English history which exists Is to be found in my opinion in the historical plays of Shakspeare Shakspeares object ob-ject was to exhibit as faithfully as he could the exact character of the great actors In thenational drama the circumstances cir-cumstances which surrounded them and he motives Internal and external ex-ternal by which they were influenced To know this is to know all No such directness of insight no such breadth of sympathy has since been applied to the writing of English history Froude I at |