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Show 1 00 WE LOVE SHAKESPEARE? Vrom This Authority It Would Ap pear That Americans Are Somewhat Some-what Indifferent. U would seem, indeed, from tho condition con-dition of Shnkcspearo on our stage, that wo all got enough of him In school, writes W. G. Parsons, In Atlantic. At-lantic. A big nolao Is mado on tho occasion of a big-priced production by a blg ndvertlscd stnr, that "tho full houBo refutes the cluirgo that Americans Ameri-cans do not love Shakespeare. It does no such thing. It rofutcs nothing but tho supposition that Americans love anything so much us bigness. Tc tako tho monetary success of occasional occa-sional and extraordinary performances, perform-ances, appealing to, our liking for the inusual and tho demonstrative, as In-llcatlvo In-llcatlvo of love, suggests thnt wo no ongcr know what lovo is. Iovo of 3hakcspcaro on tho stngo would mean :ho success of frequnt, ordinary per-'ormanccs per-'ormanccs In every town largo enough '.or a high school nnd a thentcr. Such for Instance, ns tho lovo of Wagner In Qcrmany. Or, ngnln, of Shakespeare For It Is not only In her own dramatist but In ours as woll, that Qermany cat) teach us what art-lovo Is. Tho appro elation of Shakospearo Is far mort (oncral nnd genuine thoro than hero Tho contlnuousncss of his success, do spite tho frequency nnd mediocrity ol tho performances, desplto tho lack ol all bigness and eclat, shows that it It Shakespearo that is loved. Dut then what could ono oxpect. Tho Germans Ger-mans do not, like us, get enough ol him in school. . |