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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawrence," declared Professor Lowes, "is in my estimation the foremost scholar of the world on the subject of Elizabethan drama. It is by the greatest good fortune that we have been able to procure his services for the University...
Some time has elapsed since I wrote you of my disappointing investigation among the Prophezzors at Dravrah. The interval has been spent in observing these young men, the Satellities, who seem to hold the answer to this riddle of education which so puzzles me. I have employed my greatest tact and affability to win the confidence of the leading spirits among them. I have gained insight into features of their life which to a more outsider would remain forever impenetrable. I have watched, and noted, and thought; and my bewilderment increases...
...laws of sound drama according to what "Shakespeare and I" think they ought to be, as expressed in the works of the co-equal stars. "For some years a conviction has been coming over me," says Mr. Shaw, "that Stratford-on-Avon is my birthplace." This is the greatest tribute he could pay to Shakespeare...
With Mr. Shaw, thinking is merely the fore-runner of action. Having concluded that Shakespeare was one of the world's two greatest dramatists. Mr. Shaw has set about the creation of a Shakespeare National Memorial Theatre, but without startling success. In Mr. Archibald Henderson's "Table Talk of G. B. S." he reports what progress has already been made. "After many years of struggle," says Mr. Shaw, "we have had but one subscription. The solitary sportsman who gave it was a Hamburg gentleman. When Germany recovers from the war, we may get another move on. Nil desperandum...
...Kingdom Come, found himself drifting down one of the principal waterways of that monarchy accompanied by a certain cricket. Wilbur saw a pile of debris ("The ancient Gods," said Cricket, "who had meant so much for so long that people could not let them be sold for junk"), the greatest of the world's builders, a whittling man (Stradivari), a place that smelled of onions (the Acropolis), a resigned figure absolutely alone on an island the size of a dollar (Jesus Christ). Irritated with his guide's trick of attempting to make a banality significant by understatement...