. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . st means to convey. Andit is supremely interesting because in the personof Ulysses, the real hero of the drama, Shake-speare seems to present his own view of ripest wisdom of the dramatist speaks throughthe lips of this typical man of experience, whoseinsight has been corrected by the widest contactwith affairs, whose long familiarity with the worldhas made him a master of its diseases, and whosespeech has the touch of universality in its dis-passionateness, breadth, and clarity of vision. Thistragedy of disillusion has at least the sa
. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . st means to convey. Andit is supremely interesting because in the personof Ulysses, the real hero of the drama, Shake-speare seems to present his own view of ripest wisdom of the dramatist speaks throughthe lips of this typical man of experience, whoseinsight has been corrected by the widest contactwith affairs, whose long familiarity with the worldhas made him a master of its diseases, and whosespeech has the touch of universality in its dis-passionateness, breadth, and clarity of vision. Thistragedy of disillusion has at least the savingquality of a rich and many-sided knowledge oflife. Queen Elizabeth died in March, 1603, while 2,20 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare was absorbed in the problems pre-sented in the Tragedies. His silence when thechorus of elegies filled the air has already beennoted; his friendship for Southampton and Essexhad probably estranged him from the after his accession to the throne, James I.•showed his favour to a group of nine actors,. among whom were Shakespeare and Burbage, bygranting them a special license of a very liberalcharacter, and giving them the right to call them-selves the Kings Servants. The plays of Shake-speare were repeatedly presented before the Kingat various places; among them, Wilton House,the residence of the Earl of Pembroke, whichstands in a charming country about three miles THE LATER TRAGEDIES 321 from Salisbury, and in which Sidney wrote theArcadia. The whole region is touched withhterary associations of the most diverse course of travel taken by Shakespeares com-pany makes it probable that he saw the nobleCathedral in its beautiful close as Dickens saw itwhen he laid the scene of Martin Chuzzlewitin that neighbourhood, and that he passed thelittle church where holy George Herbert livedfive years of his beautiful life a quarter of a cen-tury later. In the following year, wearing thescarlet robe presented for the occasion, Shake-sp
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