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...feel," said the nation's greatest dramatist, "like a horse that has been, given a blue ribbon. I am surprised...
...Thursday, they abound in his portraits of his contemporaries: Shaw, Wells, Belloc, Cunninghame Graham, Max Beerbohm, Sir James Barrie. Alternately scolding and admiring, he says that Shaw is no Irish rebel, that he is too "pro-British," a charge he seems to feel should cut the Irish dramatist to the quick. Chesterton and Shaw fought for 20 years. They debated on sex, socialism, Christianity, war, Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being put upon lecture platforms especially to pummel each other "like two knockabout comedians." Their social relations were less permanent. When Maurice...
...First Folio was formerly owned by Frederick Locker-Lamson, the English poet, and contains most of Shakespeare's works. The frontispiece bears an engraving of the great dramatist, as do all of the first four Folios. This engraving has always been an object of ridicule by those who hold to the theory that Bacon wrote the works accredited to Shakespeare. These Baconians claim that the picture is nothing more than a mask, a back, and two left arms. Ben Jonson, however, according to all true Shakespearians, refutes this definitely in his verse which accompanies in his verse which accompanies...
...indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national menace...
That was in the period of the poet's early fame, after the publication of "The Everlasting Mercy" and "The Widow in Bye Street." President Lowell's citation to him then read, "poet and dramatist who tells with simple native force stories of sea and land, of sin and death, of peace...