Show j I Shakespeare Held as Leader of New Art The masterpieces of ot one art were produced at Its birth The theater was a new Institution In the social life Ute of Shakespeare's youth and the first playhouse built In England was not a dozen years old when the great poet arrived e in Lon London on The Middle le ages had gratified its love of ot mimicry by I miracle plays which Into i moralities an and Interludes The middie mid mid- die dle of ot the Sixteenth SIxteen h century Latin and Greek plays w were wre re cru crudely ey Imitated In English but of poetic literary romantic ro ro- romantic ro- ro mantic Intellectual drama rama England knew practically nothing until Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare was of aga agn Here It seems he lie must have haY said Is a lan land Just discovered I I I shall be the lea leader er of or Its exploration A youn young man of two twenty-two burdened with a n wife and three children he had left his home In his native nathe town about 1580 to seek his fortune In the r great city He lie had few friends and I no money Though his ambition was Wag to be an actor and to write his own pla plays s 's he lie sought and won a l Job as callboy callboy call- call bo boy at one of the newly foun founded ed the the- aters an and was only after some soma dr inv promoted to humble duties on the stage Itself He lIe tried his hand at nt the revision of an old play and the manager man man- ager agel recognizing the nl aided ed youths youth's gift I him on his climb But nut for sewen sew sev j en or eight years he worked in ob obScurity ob- ob and It was not until his Romeo and Juliet was produced that he lie was hailed as ns the prophet of ot a new nev world of ot art Kansas art Kansas City Star |