Show shakespeare held as leader of new art the masterpieces of one art were produced at its birth the theater was a new institution in the social life of Shake bouth aud and the first playhouse house built in england angland was not a duzen dozen years old when the great poet arrived in london the middle agea had gratified its love of mimicry by miracle plays which devolved devol ped into moralities and interludes the middle of the sixteenth eill century latin und and greek plays were avre crudely imitated in En elihli but of poetic literary ro mantle intellectual drama england knew practically nothing until shake i peare was of aga here it seems lie he must have said la is a land just discovered I 1 shall be the leader of its exploration A young man of twenty two burdened esith a wife and three children he h find left his hh home in ills his native town about 1586 to seek his fortune in tilt great city lie he had find few me friends rids and nna no money though his ambition war wa to lie be an actor and to write ills his own plays lie sought and won a job as callboy at one of the newly founded theaters and was only after some delay promoted to humble batles on the stage itself he tried his hand at the revision of an old play and the lie manager the youths lis gift aided him on oil his climb but for seven or eight years lie he work worked A in 0 lib scurley and it was not until lili lah romeo and juliet was produced that lie was hulled balled as the prophet of a new world of art kansas city star |