Bacon is Shake-speare . this also must have been penned to openthe eyes of the public to the absurdity of the popularconception of the author of the plays as an unletteredman who knew little Latin and less Greek ! The highest scholarship not only in this countryand in Germany but throughout the world has beenfor many years concentrated upon the classicalcharacters portrayed in the plays, and the adversecriticism of former days has given place to a reveren-tial admiration for the marvellous knowledge ofantiquity displayed throughout the plays in thepresentation of the historical characters of b
Bacon is Shake-speare . this also must have been penned to openthe eyes of the public to the absurdity of the popularconception of the author of the plays as an unletteredman who knew little Latin and less Greek ! The highest scholarship not only in this countryand in Germany but throughout the world has beenfor many years concentrated upon the classicalcharacters portrayed in the plays, and the adversecriticism of former days has given place to a reveren-tial admiration for the marvellous knowledge ofantiquity displayed throughout the plays in thepresentation of the historical characters of by-gonetimes ; classical authority being found for nearly everyword put into their mouths. What does it matter whether the immortal workswere written by Shakspeare (of Stratford) or by agreat and learned man who assumed the name Shake-speare to Shake a lance at Ignorance ? We shouldnot forget that this phrase Shake a lance at Ignor-ance is contemporary, appearing in Ben Jonsonspanegyric in the Shakespeare folio of CHAPTER II. The Shackspere Monument,Bust, and Portrait. In the year igog Mr. George Hookham in the Januarynumber of the National Review sums up practically\J all that is really known of the life of WilliamShakspeare of Stratford as follows :— * We only know that he was born at Stratford, of illiterate parents—(we do not know that he wentto school there)—that, when i8j years old, he married Anne Hathaway (who was eight years his senior, and who bore him a child six months after marriage) ; that he had in all three children by her (whom with their mother he left, and went to London, having apparently done his best to desert her before marriage);—that in London he became an actor with an interest in a theatre, and was reputed to be the writer of plays ;—that he purchased property in Stratford, to which town he returned ;—engaged in pur- chases and sales and law-suits (of no biographical interest except as indicating his money-making and litigious temper
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