Word: hesketh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole, Biographer Ervine has written a solid, slow, yet readable account. It is duller, but more complete, than Hesketh Pearson's brilliant portrait (1950). And it firmly supports Shaw's claim to being the greatest dramatist in the English language since Shakespeare-a claim recently supported by his erratic fellow Irishman, Sean O'Casey. Wrote O'Casey in a memorable tribute: "Look at the Theatre as it was . . . So sob-sisterly, so stupid, so down to dust was the Theatre then that God turned his back to it, made for Shaw, caught him by the beard...
...WALTER SCOTT, HIS LIFE & PERSONALITY (295 pp.)-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
...history's first mass reading public - a public that was created with the rise of the middle class, when literature ceased being mostly a fixture of the countryhouse and the coffeehouse, and was taken up by the new masters of the countinghouse. In his excellent new study, Biographer Hesketh Pearson (G.B.S., Dickens, Oscar Wilde) calls Scott "the first of the best-selling novelists." In his artful little life of the elder Dumas, Biog rapher André Maurois (Proust, Disraeli, Voltaire) says: "Better than any other novelist, Dumas knew how to share and satisfy the passions of the masses...
...sometimes listed with a "shafte" rather than a "speare." As for young William himself, he was known only to have been a member of the Earl of Derby's players later in life. But some of those players had apparently come from the household of one Sir Thomas Hesketh of Rufford, who was not only related to Thomas Savage, one of Shakespeare's Globe Theater partners, but also to Sir Alexander Houghton, Shakeshafte's patron. In his will, Keen found, Houghton had recommended his players to Hesketh, and from there, the link to the Earl of Derby...
...Jack Hesketh's words at Jimmy Alcock's funeral [TIME, Jan. 4]. They should be en grossed on deathless parchment, and a framed copy presented to every legislator and judge in the land...