Soul lurk in shades and shun the lightsome skies
- DMI number:
- 16832
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Soul lurk in shades and shun the lightsome skies
- Last Line:
- In night the blind man misseth not his eyes
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Night
- Author:
- John Marston
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Malcontent' Act 4 Scene 5. Halliwell-Phillipps (1856) II: 268.
- Author:
- John Webster
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry: '[T]here is no surviving evidence of Webster's dramatic activity until 1604, when his name is linked with that of Marston on the title-page of the third edition of the latter's The Malcontent. What is meant by the words ‘Augmented by Marston. With the additions played by the Kings Maiesties servants. Written by Ihon Webster’ has long been debated, but it is now generally agreed, as by Hunter and by Lake (1981), that Webster wrote not only the induction but also additional material involving the clown, Passarello.'
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.296
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Marston's Malecontent
- Attributed To:
- John Marston
Poem Aliases
Malcontent.
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