text:  both murderous usurpers as different as two men can well be; of Leontes and Othello two jealous husbands and as different even in their jealousy as two men can be; of Coriolanus and Hotspur each an earthly Mars; each "the soul of honour;" each sudden in passion impetuous and ungovernable; each with a kindliness of nature that draws and attaches his friends as much as the superiority of his character overrules them; each with a rough abrupt penetrating strength of intellect; each endowed which is more peculiar with vivid imagination that leaps into bold poetical figures; each of a cutting wit and in his own way humourous pleasantry; and yet the semi-traditionary Roman patrician and the quite historical English earl's son so distinct that you shall read the two plays in which they are ten and twenty times over without thinking of putting the towering heroes twinned by so many so marked and so profound affinities upon a line of comparison