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Most recent hunter of the Shakespeare snark is Alden Brooks, born in Cleveland, Ohio. His 700-page Will Shakspere and the Dyer's Hand is his second try at unmasking Shakespeare, and the result of 20 years' sniffing among Shakespearean data. Stern, relentless Alden Brooks takes a poor view of the accused. He depicts Shakespeare as a butcher's son in Stratford, "a country youth who has to leave school early in order to assist his father in the killing of cattle . . . one who sows his wild oats so liberally that he must, first, marry against...
Shaw's first plays were received without enthusiasm, but soon he was battling with the dramatic leaders of his day. Invited to Westminster Abbey for Shakespearean Actor Sir Henry Irving's funeral, he retorted: "Literature, alas, has no place at his death as it had no place in his life. Irving would turn in his coffin if I came, just as Shakespeare will turn in his coffin when Irving comes...
Another famed Harvard character is "Copey"--Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, the second in the immortal trio of "Kitty and Copey and Bliss." "Kitty" was Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, renowned Shakespearean scholar, who died a year ago, while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman Robert Benchley '12, and many more." About each of these the legends are never-ending...
Unmarried, British-born Shakespearean Star Maurice Evans, 41, naturalized last year, was commissioned a captain in the Army Specialist Corps, sent to Omaha to organize theatricals for isolated Army posts...
...passion which drives him at the climax to the murder of his wife. To portray the power of this jealousy which is destroying Othello's soul, Robeson does not rely upon his magnificent voice alone. To this he adds a remarkable depth of emotion which is essential in making Shakespearean tragedies believable. It is the realization of feeling behind Robeson's words and actions that makes the audience accept the Moor as a very real, terrifying, but pitiful character...