Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Shakespeare: An Address
Shakespeare the plaudits of the thea tre. The mere multiplicity of the events of this wide commemoration, the volume of universal applause of the generations, force us to realize the insignificance of any particular expression of the general praise. A sin a popular festival, each parti cipant, as he passes, follows his own whim in the common carnival. The scholar will turn the leaves of his book and linger caressingly over recondite difficulties of the text or the meaning; the player will fit the costume to the mind, and play the part from his bosom. Everything will go on as in a play. To - day all the world 's a stage. For the most part, it is by the eye that Shakespeare's world will be seen, embodied in a fantastic round of revels, a general masquerade, a pageant, how varied, how familiar, how interminable!
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