William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . and tender pity was THE LAST YEARS AT STRATFORD 409 distilled out of his vast experience, and his lastwork was the ripe fruit of the beautiful humaniza-tion of his genius accomplished in him by the disci-pline and the revelation of life in his personal history. The Tempest and The Winters Tale, comingat the end of a long and arduous career, are theconvincing witnesses of the harmony of life and artin which resides the secret of Shakespeares noblefertility and sustained power. The path which ledfrom Titus Andronicus to The Tehipest musthave been o
William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . and tender pity was THE LAST YEARS AT STRATFORD 409 distilled out of his vast experience, and his lastwork was the ripe fruit of the beautiful humaniza-tion of his genius accomplished in him by the disci-pline and the revelation of life in his personal history. The Tempest and The Winters Tale, comingat the end of a long and arduous career, are theconvincing witnesses of the harmony of life and artin which resides the secret of Shakespeares noblefertility and sustained power. The path which ledfrom Titus Andronicus to The Tehipest musthave been one of gradual but unbroken ascent. Tokeep in ones soul the freshness of perception andimagination which touches The Tempest withthe light that never fades, one must be great inheart and in life as well as in creative Prometheus brought the arts of life to men,he did not leave them skill without inspiration; hebrought them hope also. Shakespeares genius,shining on the darkest ways, seems to touch thesky beyond the horizon with CARVING FROM STALLS OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, STRATFORD. INDEX Actor, Shakespeare as an, 104, 118. Actors, professional, created by theMoralities, 16; their position by themiddle of the sixteenth century, 78;Elizabeth a patron of, 106; Leicesterscompany of, 106-108, 114; a perform-ancedescribed,io9-iii; Shakespearesname on hsts of, 117; the address to,in Hamlet, 118; opposition of theCity to, 128-131 ; in the War of theTheatres, 277-280, 310; boys as, 108,309-312,389; reference in Hamletto the strife between boy and adult,310. Adam, in As You Like It played byShakespeare, 117. Adaptation of his own plays, 205, 262. Adaption of Plays by Shakespeare, 137,139-144, 148. AUeyne, Edward, the star of the Admi-rals Men, 116. Alls Well that Ends Well, source ofits plot, 311-313; alluded to, 315. A Lovers Complaint alluded toamong the poetical writings of Shake-speare, 137, 177; published with theSonnets, but little else is known of it,224. A Midsum
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