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Show LOWLY FOLLOWERS OF POET Great Ones of tho Earth Long Refused Re-fused to Recognize Shakespeare, But He Had His Disciples. William Shakespeare, "the monarch; of mankind," was in life a humble, youth who came, with his people, from, an Interior village to a place in the-fields the-fields outside tha walla of the chief city. He had to do with a stable. He returned whence he came, and wrss" not seen by his disciples after his disappearance dis-appearance from the theaters. HI companions and disciples clung to hi memory and printed his book, th. learned brushed It all aside. He himself him-self had cared no more for his dramatic dra-matic works than Democritus, Epic-tetus Epic-tetus or Socrates cared for literary-fame. literary-fame. As late as Doctor Johnson's, time, the Shakespeare book was tcv be denounced by scholars as lacking In many poesies necessary to such a. work if good. But never did the disciples dis-ciples and their lowly kind depart from the devout worship of Shakespeare, which we ourselves must finally offer.: He who had been of the lord of the king's kitchen servants (by courtesy) barn-stormers, poor players, strutting-their strutting-their brief hour this meek and lowly-lord, lowly-lord, when he arose Into heaven, war. worshiped by kitchen servants who-had who-had no literary comb to lose. We shall" note, In all the time that now Is. counted this side of Shakespeare's, death, that his most faithful worshipers worship-ers have been of humble state and small account. "William Shakespeare," Shake-speare," John McGovern, In National Magazine. |