Otway's Windsor Castle and Pope's Windsor-Forest.(Critical Essay) From: ANQ | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning | COPYRIGHT 2005 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Although Shakespeare mocked Polonius's taxonomy of compound forms, the most extravagant label of all, "tragical-comical-historical-pastoral" (Hamlet 1.2.394-95), would find a sticking place (of an adhesive rather than pitch-securing kind) on two poems written a century or so later--Thomas Otway's Windsor Castle in Monument to K. Charles H and Alexander Pope's Windsor-Forest. As both give accounts of the past (distant in Pope, more immediate in Otway), both may be called "historical...