Abstract
IN ONE OF THE FIRST DETAILED STUDIES of Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen, Theodore Spencer did his best to suggest that Shakespeare's scenes had been produced by exhausted mind, one that believed in an order melted at edges into a larger unity of acceptance and wonder. Claiming that verse of play's opening scene is processional and static and that its tone is one of invocation and apostrophe, Spencer argued that Shakespeare distances audience from action of play by using highly rhetorical and ritualistic language to embellish the ghosts of familiar themes that lack reality of conviction. In his eyes, Shakespeare's retirement to Stratford was inevitable.
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