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Show Vfkmt Mad Slikpr. Carnegiti's view that "hard worfc made Shakespeare the greatest dramatic dra-matic genius" la absurd. The finest poetic imagination of modorn Utera turc, which Is the foundation ot the supreme and universal excellence of! Shakespeare, was not obtained by "hard work;" It was a beautiful gift from God. It would bo quite as reasonable rea-sonable to say that "hard work" mad Iiomor, tho greatest poet of antiquity, Tho truth Is that Shakespeare proW ably gavo more "bard work" to his duties du-ties as an actor and a theatrical manager mana-ger than ho over did to his plays. H wrote with extraordinary rapidity and ofton ,nt n kind ot faver boat, as did Byron nnd Shelloy and Keats. Shake spearo was sometimes called upon by his manager or his company on brief notice to exclso passages, rewTlte passages pas-sages and supply entirely now matter. Such facility of mind Is the gift of great natural powers, and can not be created by "hard work." |