[Fredsinitiativet-trondheim] David and Fair Bethsabe, " published in 1599, because, in the delib

[Gilham Audas]

Omeo and Juliet" was upon the stage in 1592. In it there are distinct
traces of Shakspere's influence. "The love scenes, and the images and
similes describing
the charms of the beauty of nature, remind one of those incomparable
pictures in
'Romeo and Juliet.'" In Peele's other plays he has made but feeble
attempts
to depict love, beauty, or grace; in "King David" he has "depicted
them with a remarkably high degree of
success." These are all the works of Peele which have come down to our
time, and after this review of his and of Greene's dramas, it does not
seem that "Greene and Peele were the chief makers of such plays," that
is, of "chronicle histories," before Marlowe. The truth is, that all
the supporters of Malone's theory have taken Malone's unsupported
statement as indisputable fact; they have not sufficiently examined
the works of Greene and Peele, but have assumed, as Malone assumed,
that
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