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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hamlet is the most popular of all of Shakespeare's plays, and managers are always sure of filling their theatres when they offer it for presentation. This is not wonderful, for the work is a melodrama pure and simple. It is a "tragedy of blood," and is a play in which action is the predominant feature. The plots and conspiracies; the play within a play; Hamlet's journey to England and return; the madness of Orphelia; all are full of action, and form a potent attraction for the popular mind. Throughout the play there is a bleak, cold humor, which...
Many men think that in their youths they can sow their wild oats and live for pleasure. When they are ready to settle in life, they say, they will reform and become pure, religious men. They are mistaken. There is no short cut from sin to righteousness, and the only thing that can atone for their past is a complete change of inner feeling, which will not come at command. Good aspirations must precede any effort to reform, and the starting point must be the change of the very purpose of one's life...
Applied to ourselves, these thoughts suggested that bad habits and evil thoughts were to be removed by the cultivation of those that were good. Social evils should be cured by the influence of pure lives. Forms and dogmas that were outgrown should be supplanted only by better forms and better dogmas. The mind should be relieved of half truths by learning whole truths. The great example of the reformer, after all, was Christ...
...world in several different relations. First, Jesus by the shedding of his blood cleansed the divine altar contaminated by the sins of men, thus providing an open path by which man can approach the throne. Secondly, the shed blood of Jesus cleanses the man himself making him pure and clean and invigorating him with the energy of a new life. In this verse, however, the author is thinking of the shedding, not the use of blood after its being shed. He has in mind the self-sacrificing of men for the life of others, - Esther interposing herself to save...
...originally done. It is entirely dissimilar in construction and locality to any of the humorous plays lately presented in this country and as a study of laughter it is said to be the most perfect, not that kind of laughter that succumbs to buffoonery, but that which yields to pure, jovial fun evolved by legitimate methods from the supremely humorous complications originating from a well-told, consistent story...