Shakespeare's Colour-Names

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Jan 1879

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Nature, Volume 19, Issue 481, pp. 244-245 (1879).

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MR. BREWIN'S assertion that Shakespeare's ``word was doubtless keen'' (not green) in the passage (``so green, so quick, so fair an eye'') in ``Romeo and Juliet,'' iii. 5, may be put on a par with his ``wonder that the correction was not made long ago.'' That alteration was made by Sir Thomas Hanmer, and has been rejected by every subsequent editor, and rightly so. ``Green'' was a common epithet for the eyes, and examples occur in many of our early poets, from Chaucer to Milton. Dyce quotes from H. Weber (à propos of Cervantes), ``Green eyes were considered as peculiarly beautiful.'' We have of Neptune, ``Thy rare green eye,'' in ``The Two Noble Kinsmen,'' v. 1, in a passage attributed by some to Shakespeare. That Shakespeare wrote green in ``Romeo and Juliet'' I think beyond reasonable doubt; and if he wrote green he certainly meant green, and not blue: for in ``A Midsummer Night's Dream'' green eyes are compared to leeks. In our day violet eyes have the precedence over green eyes, yet I think there is still a kind of fascination in the latter. I leave the eagles to the naturalists. Ne sutor, &c.

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