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The World War must be held accountable for this study of a long, rambling Elizabethan manuscript. I had planned for some time to investigate the life and work, so full of problems, of John Marston, and in this way I had come to The Newe Metamorphosis which had been associated with the dramatists name for over a century. The globeembracing designs of Germany necessarily put a stop to further research concerning Marston, for communication with England was uncertain, and the British libraries did not welcome visitors during those anxious days of grim determination. I ndeed, one felt it an impertinence to intrude on a stage set for so sombre a tragedy. But since the various books of The Newe Metamorphosis could be obtained at long intervals, it seemed that a study of this manuscript might prove of some value. I ts many closely-written pages, indeed, might hold something of fresh interest concerning those spacious days of Shakspere. In this, I have been mistaken. My work, consequently, has resolved itself mainly into a consideration of authorship. I have tried to keep before me in the following pages the fact that a manuscript, not easily accessible, is of the chief concern to those interested in a limited study of this character. Quotations are given frequently and at length, and the final chapter is devoted to selections. In doing this I owe the author of The Newe Metamorphosis an apology, because he cannot be adequately judged by a few lines arbitrarily taken from his nearly one thousand pages. He is at his best as a very leisurely teller of stories.
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