Autograph letter signed from William Aldis Wright, Cambridge, England, to [Edward] Fitzgerald [manuscript], 1880 Februrary 29.

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Autograph letter signed from William Aldis Wright, Cambridge, England, to [Edward] Fitzgerald [manuscript], 1880 Februrary 29.

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Criticizes the play, Richard the Third, stating that Shakespeare's art must have been in an "elementary condition when he made his principal character explain to the audience in his soliloquies what a crafty villain he was."

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