| Show SHAKESPEARE AND HIS PLAYS PLA YB Brilliant Lecture at L 1 L D S University BY AHDE W A Large sit unit II ball 1111 by h 11 Ills Ami nd ur of hull Mr Kix Frederick d Wards delivered his hi groat lecture and amI ills Uis Playa Y before th the tho ot of the thu thuL L ii 1 D 8 a University lly yesterday HarraU hall was tiled lIed with Minor eager listeners The lecturer began by ly discussing the Ihl life works worl vork lilt of or Shako spear whose very ery name annie was wall music mulo to him Who was tunis Shakespeare uni J what did he lie do Much bus hus been leu In Anser of ot which not noi u ii little Is 19 extremely puzzling There Is 18 tin nn Impression 1111 I on the th lecturer MId bald that hot tho the great grent poet wn wall born Lorn of ut humble parentage This Is IB u a mistake Ills ancestors belonged to lie tho yeo yeu maIlI that great middle dusts class from which has hiatt sprung tho tue bust best In anti and America Of or early life lito wo we know but ut little Ittle The fhe very date dato of ut Ids his birth U III I a matter of o Inference lie He probably attended the uranium r school and WUI therefore out on his career Cn 1111 a n little Latin LuthI and on less loss Greek From this Iliac till his eighteenth year we wc hive have no record of or his doings and then thou only emily a 11 record r ot of an he married Mr Wanlo Wartle hero here explained tut he Ill dill not hold ally uny to towards t wards ward matrimony In general but ut that lie Ito certainly did lii not hunt look with favor on ona onu ona a u between a u L boy of ot IS 18 and a 1 ayoung ayoung young woman eight lIght years yearn older ns liS was isaa thin tho case with the lie wet The Tue next Important event In tile the life of ot Shakespeare Wits was un an escapade In which Sir Thomas Lucy Llcy cut an un Import int and 1 ridiculous And the lee Ice r related tIme tile with a f as grave ve and amid a it torte tone ua till earnest ilK alt is If It tho the critics law had never been bt 1 anything but hUl agreed upon the tho nb ul absolute truthfulness of If o Mr 1 patient Investigations A Shakespeare like hike thu lest of or mortal mortals must sow JaW lila Ills wild willi eats ollis Than Shakespeare went to London where for tor a p II time he held lucid horses tot for the tho sentry gentry sell try at nt the door of ot the time theater until lit lie could get somethIng to do on thu There in is n a tradition that he lut isas lut nn tin indifferent actor as us Indeed cd most me are It Is thought that he took look the part lart of ot Adorn Adam In An its You Like It and lint Hint of ot Hotspur In III part first of Henry IV It l is III certain however hower that lust ho Ito 10 Introduced that abominable custom of ot traveling companies which bus bun since made Itinerants of lIr t tt pro fe sors of ot thu lie noble art of ot acting n 11 m wrote many wi plays here at nt first In col collaboration with others then by b himself He lie stood l well Wll up tip In III tIme the tI recognition of ot i the Ih dramatists of his hili son soil sail and Fletcher After fler nc tie considerable wealth by I his pen lIeu penh he h finally retired to 10 ho died 1 on 1111 hiss his birthday Sonic Some verns have questioned Shako Shalo creates title to tIme the credit of ut producing ing there thieo th great If rea t plays and have OU flOred to put the laurels lourel upon the theod od of or Sir lih Frauds Francis I Bacon This theory thear unit conceived cone by b an on obscure de tie of ot the lie great and a woman who ilits diet died soon loon In the in lIt inH H stIfle ne asylum The rIme Idea lIen was waH elaborated elaborate 1 I v the tha late lato Mr II Donelley who probably tell us now It If he lie would whether r of ur these twain wrote the plays K and IIII by bya h a It learned d 1 These two have YOU won YOi a conspicuous place In tItus this rny tho the former with his cryptogram cr and time the latter luller with his liln crank Now No wan true UR a 1 scholar a 1 courtier r and a of ot facts Shake or at tiny any rate rutn the this wan lIIn who tote rote the plays Illa H railed called by I y name was only tolerably l educated as II asIn tn to the schools anti and wn wits waH u II man of or fancy It Is III Impossible to conceive that hs sain person wrote tho the ell Il Ilon on on Love Iove In III works and time the ex ox exquisite qUI love iove poem and Juliet For my part said In 1111 leI Mr Ir I 1 would Huhl as 8 leave doubt the tho ho of ot till the Lords prayer er which I loomed to ll lisp lIP p t at t my may 11 mothers knee 1111 as us doubt that plays were ivere written by b the man of Stratford Th Ch greater portion of ot the tho lecture from this till II point consisted con of ot quotation from the Ih various plays pla s illustrative of ot mighty and comprehensive sive genius Kach quotation was wn pro bv hI explanations of ot the time conditions under which the till word word were uttered tittered by bythe b bythe the different characters sol sal shows the ambition II of ot tho tIme states lIntel statesman man other quotations given Riven Indicate th the belief bellet of ot Shakespeare In lit the power of or prayer 11 cr The seven een ages from A AYou As AB You mou Like Ilee It the th ponderous loUI of ot th grave Cl ve diggers rs In Hamlet as aswell 11 well tech AC u the advice A of or Hamlet to the Ar and of or to Leaned the of ot If Duke of nil all given with an 1111 effect that e ran an n b bI be only by h this p and actor Mr M 1 In sassIng an n Important difference r nc between Shake p arrs ar works work anti and the In works of ot great hut lut almost forgotten dramatists that were his hla contemporaries Time The great I wet not only lila Ills hI mn age R but all a e and arid all times while these others ethers expressed only their own OWl lay day bake iRre appeals to the mil 1111 In Iii man the others other arc are 1 ion ml Ml by ly the narrow harrow limit of ot their own age 11 hence lIn anticipates the th fu to future tore ture Kt as he h dH the last Ill lecture ton with wit a It few to 1 I b In the study nf of C the jrr i t burn time till commentator Sh k him relf 11 farm nn your own on conception then tItan fro go 0 to the commentator to M sa whether they lacy t with wali you oU ar rot his itt plays play for tor and antI antIno no other tM D Ipie ople can so to fully them III lu order to 10 real read him It In is not for on one to be Ix b a R professor professors protE ot AH s 11 th t this keynote to tn the character of ot any It ny rf t meu and aid women stud tc the first the hest NIt hat but the th first M soliloquy In proof of ot tM this Mr lr Ir nii nU quoted ld the tim of or of or III of t Hamlet adS of th tb tbs In Ii In I there th In I n a wh h Is Ie world of ot and and ant philosophies mind antI hi hili the cleric circle of or human |
