Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . defy ex-planation. But here it is to be noted thatsuch passages are usually of a philologicaldifficulty. The difficulty arises from anamended text, from an obsolete word, froma provincialism. The line may be obscure,but the scene, the act, the play itself, is seems to keep in mind the Quin-tilian precept that one must not only be clearenough to be understood, but so clear thatone cannot be misunderstood. In writingplays to be acted, Shakspere knew that themeaning must be caught on the jump. Thespoken word is winged. We have been read
Ohio University bulletin Summer school, 1909 . defy ex-planation. But here it is to be noted thatsuch passages are usually of a philologicaldifficulty. The difficulty arises from anamended text, from an obsolete word, froma provincialism. The line may be obscure,but the scene, the act, the play itself, is seems to keep in mind the Quin-tilian precept that one must not only be clearenough to be understood, but so clear thatone cannot be misunderstood. In writingplays to be acted, Shakspere knew that themeaning must be caught on the jump. Thespoken word is winged. We have been read-ing and studying his plays so earnestly thatwe forget that we can get the meaning ofthe play by seeing it well acted. I went tosee The Winters Tale recently, said a school-man to me lately, and I found that I under-stood the play and enjoyed it, although I hadnot an opportunity to read the play beforegoing to the theater. Of course he the Elizabethans read the play beforegoing on the Thames to the Globe? (VIIO UNIVERSITY BULLETIN 121. Residence of Dean Henry G. Williams, 39 North College St. When Shakspere fears he may be misunder-stood, like a skillful lawyer before an averagejury, he repeats the idea in various this illustration from Othello: * * Is he honest?Honest, my lord? Othello : Iago: Othello: Honest, ay, honest. Iago: My lord, for aught I know. Othello: What dost thou think? Iago: Think, my lord? Othello: By heaven, he echoes me, As if there were some monsterin his thought Too hideous to be shown * * * * thou criedst didst contract and purse thybrow together. As if thou then hadst shut upin thy brain Some horrible is as though Shakspere feared somemiserable actor might not catch the subtletyof Iagos tones and so he makes Othello saywhat the intelligent reader knew beforeOthello repeats. Take another passage in the. same play. InAct V8 scene 1, after Iago has sent Roderigoon his mission, he thus soliloquizes: * * Now, whether h
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