The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-05-19

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The Great shakespearean Tcrccntenary
I. o. AyHseija Festival bne yuaqa
lss " SrArFoRD- -oN-AvoN, April %.
-ui Carlyle reminds us that Shakespeare
took no airs upon himself for writing
I Hamlet; indeed, that he was magnifi-
Gently unconscious of his great work,
He might have added, but did not,
that his cotcmporaries and his country
Isharad in this unconsciousne ess!i Ifis
Edroil IN the midst Of this deluge of
garnish for the Shakespearean sepulr
chre, to remember that Milton regard
led Ben Johnson, now chiefly celebra-
ted as the man who recognized Shake
speare, as a greater man; that the po-
els of Charles HIS reign regarded as
2unpresentable without their re-cloth
ing; that Rowe comBlacently re-wrote
the fifth of Lear; that Voltaire persua-
/ ded the learned Of his day that the
CHINA Of Corneille was superior to the
best dramas of Shakespeare; that in
deed it was not until tho critics of
Germany pointed, out the fact, that it
was ever suspected in England that
the greatest Of poets had lived there,
fhad addressed himself to his task and
4 performed it, and all unrecognized
had departed, leaving the multitpdes
centuries after to rush in, and gaze, and
wonder, and pick MP his old boots and
pewter mugs. Ofhow many crowned
4 kings do we know asimuch as wewish
may, o great deal more than we wish;
but how little of this uncrowned, but
most zeal king! Perhaps it may be
well, as an Introduction to the report
., of the great Tercentenafy Festival, to
sum briefly all that, afterNth closest
most critical sitting ofiall the materi
ais up TO this day, has been the ascer-
tained amount of our knowledge con
cerning Shakespeare: 'I'' oo OPT
"He was born at Stratford- on Avon
+ in April, 1864. lie is supposed tt
have been at the Grammar school O.
that town; but the circumstances O
his father, res augusta doni, allowed
him little advantage Of an education
He married when quite young, the
daughter of a farmer OF substantial
. yeoman OF the neighborhood. His
wife, Anna Hathaway, was sever
2 years his senior. Tradition says hi
! had to leave Stratford on account o.
: : getting into trouble in Sir Thomas
i Lucy's deer park, at Charlecotc. Al
3 brey, gossip as he is, has no referenc
Y to his Devastating, but says that, 'be
t ing inclined naturally to poetry an'
: acting, he came to London at abou
!. eighteen A fellow townsman, Ton
! ! Green, may have influenced him t.
! seek employment in connection witt
: the stage. BY the circumstances O
his life, the marvellous power of his ge
l, MUS was turned to dramatic compost
+ tion. lie seems to have been pru
i dent man, following diligently tn
ii calling of an actor and author; occa
!. sionally visiting his nativet town, wher
'r he invested his professional gains i
\. the purchase of property, and wher
/, he finally settled about the year 1905
M Here he lived u retired life, his nam
n appearing from time to time in legs
deeds and local registers 'connectc
st with affairs of his family or property
. His will, the most important of the L
IN gal documents, is dated 25th of Marcl
q 1616, lie died on the 23d of April {
+ the same year. april 25, Viii
u Shakespeare Cont, is the register {
E, his burial. He was buried in tho char
an eel of his parish church, and the MOI
ny1 ument to his memory was erecte
g some time before the year 1928" "gi
'" IaWith the exception of a few not
ces in indentures, gconveyances, an
he other legal documents, in which h
"a name occurs in connection with Il
rre purchase or transfer of property, th
e. is absolutely all that is authenticnll
~ ~ known of the outward life ofShak
is. epeare. For other supplementary ar
n fragmentary notices We are thankf'
be to, the antiquaries, and also for sue
!, incidental allusions as the followin
3r- In a letter from Mrs. Alleyn to h
X; husband, Edward Alleyn, the found
as &c, of the Dulwick Hospital, dated Oct
IN in ber 1903, she tells of youth, Franc
an an Challorer, chepalier, d'induStie
lIpIrt of those days, who came and wi
Gle would have borrowed some money
~ Mr.. Shakespeare Of the Globe, wi
Pa came, said he, knew hym not, only
nm herde ofhym that he was roge \
,sn y X y SO he was glad we did n
nd lend him the money The youth be
mn M, rowed a horse from a neighbor, al
! rode off into obscurity. Good Nj
+ Alleyn's letter., as Mr., G, Knight l
I marks, shows that William Shak
700 speare went about pretty much Ii
lOo other people, calling common thin
J. by their common names, giving advi
yiS about worldly matters in the way
ldO ordinary. folk, and spoken Of by !
Snss SSs wife of q friend, without any wond
.nu o,. la ,Ida4;a.,. ;,st 90 if he had trritt