Word: shaksperians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short and inglorious existence. No other ideal will satisfy the aspirations of the followers of its past teaching. If it is to be revived in the form of a Shakspere Conference, it is, as Dr. Johnson says, "already dead." If it is to present a series of public Shaksperian recitals, it is incapable of accomplishing such work satisfactorily. Few desire its revival; none desires to create in it another opportunity for such a ludicrous and preposterous exhibition of inane and cheap acting as was thrust upon the university two years ago in the form of "A Presentation of Julius Caesar...
...death of Mr. Hudson, the great Shaksperian scholar, brings before us forcibly the story of his life. From it we may learn what determination can do. A common workman at twenty two, fitting himself for college in nine months, graduating after a long struggle at self-support, becoming almost at once a famous critic and an authority in his favorite study. What a lesson his life teaches. The death of such a man cannot pass without remark and honor. We owe to his memory at least a word of appreciation, for he has left to us in his life...
...lateness of the hour at which last night's reading was finished prevents us from giving a detailed criticism of the recital. The reading was the best of the series. Difficult as it is to render Shaksperian comedy well, Mr. Jones showed himself to better advantage in interpreting the subtle and delicate fancy of the great master than he did in his previous readings, with the tamer and less exacting productions of Dickens and Longfellow. In the reading last night Mr. Jones seemed to feel greater sympathy for some of his characters than for others. The uneveness, however...
King Lear may or may not be the greatest of Shakspere's plays, but of his great plays it is undoubtedly the most Shaksperian. For if we separate as much as is possible the qualities of Shakspere, and inquire by which of them he is most to be distinguieshed from other dramatists, I think we shall find it to be that gift of presenting a multitude of scenes and characters, a jumble of styles and incidents, within the limits of one connected drama Other poets have written exquisite and sublime verse, others have known how to depict passion and unfold...
...Record's Shaksperian remarks are highly intelligible, - about on a par with Mr. Swinburne's meandering imbecility...