Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-03 | Page 11 | Uncommon Sense

UNCOMMON UNCOMMON o 0 SENSE p o 0 Shakespeare complains a modern n author wrote everything Nobody nowadays can escape from fron L him hint Perhaps Shakespeare plagiarized a bit himself lIe He certainly never I scrupled pled to take a plot that he thought he h needed But it is not the plots of his plays play s that made them immortal It is not even his character tion or the situations which have hay e made male people gb go to see them hundreds hun hun- dress of ot years and which have ma made mad h. h e them a part of ot English literature an and a phrases phrase's from front them figure In the ever every l y I d day y speech of ot intelligent people Shakespeare's plays are Indestructible ible because wisdom is s anti there Is wisdom In almost eve every ry lino of ot them All this wisdom he could not have hay originated Although his was the most mos t wonderful mind that has hns ever existed before his time or since it Jt could no not t have produced those plays without t help from minds which went vent before What Shakespeare did was to take talc e the wisdom of ot the ages and apply it I t to the times Umes and conditions of ot which whit he wrote Many ot of his most brilliant speeches s are aro put into the mouths of ot characters character s of ot relative unimportance One of ot these them j in Romeo Rome o an and Juliet proved so brilliant that Lisa t the author convinced that such a men men- tai tal pace could not be kept up killed hue i him early in the pI play a. a and thereby y avoided responsibility for him any fur fux ther I day Read Head Shakespeare's plays ever plays every V Read them then carefully and note not that the he philosophy and comment a on n life Ufe in them is Just as ap applicable t to the present time as it was to the time tim in which the playwright lived Saturate yourself with Shakespeare e and you will be able to talk better an and ancI to write better and to think better I For In making the wisdom of ot hi his I plays a part of ot your mental equipment j f you are arc adding the wisdom of ot the age ogres ogres' s to your own necessarily limited II Knowledge Is not always valuable But wisdom is not only valuable valuable bu but And there is more o 0 f i It i to be found in n the works o of ot Shakespeare Shakes Shakes- peare pears than in those of ot all other writers writ writ- I ers era ancient and modern put to together I etherl i 1923 by John Blake