. William Shakespere : a biography. [Tlie Moimmont in Slnillonl Chiircli.]. Was William Shakspere at Kenilworth in that summer of 1575, when tliegreat Dudley entertained Elizabeth with a splendour which annalists havedelighted to record, and upon which one of our own days has bestowed a famemore imperishable than that of any annals ? Percy, speaking of the oldCoventry Hock-play, says, Whatever this old play or storial show was atthe time it was exhibited to Queen Elizabeth, it had probably our youngShakspere for a spectator, who was then in his twelfth year, and doubtlessattended with
. William Shakespere : a biography. [Tlie Moimmont in Slnillonl Chiircli.]. Was William Shakspere at Kenilworth in that summer of 1575, when tliegreat Dudley entertained Elizabeth with a splendour which annalists havedelighted to record, and upon which one of our own days has bestowed a famemore imperishable than that of any annals ? Percy, speaking of the oldCoventry Hock-play, says, Whatever this old play or storial show was atthe time it was exhibited to Queen Elizabeth, it had probably our youngShakspere for a spectator, who was then in his twelfth year, and doubtlessattended with all the inhabitants of the surrounding country at these princelypleasures of Kenilworth, whence Stratford is only a few miles distant. * Thepreparations for this celebrated entertainment were on so magnificent a scale,the purveyings must have been so enormous, the posts so unintermitting, thatthere had needed not the flourishings of paragraphs (for the age of paragraphswas not as yet) to have roused the curiosity of all mid-England. Elizabethhad visited Kenilworth on two previou
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