By Jupiter he looks so terrible
- DMI number:
- 19325
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- By Jupiter he looks so terrible
- Last Line:
- I'm half afraid to praise him
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Anger
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Troilus and Cressida Act 1 Scene 2. Calif. XIII (1985): 247. Significantly derived from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Dryden's Truth Found Too Late significantly derived from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.224
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak. Troil. Cress.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late.
Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida.
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