Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-01-15
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H~'. RAskspeaFs. ..1
~ A most interesting and important rovela-
tIon has just been made ofthe lifo Of shAk-
speare, BY which the character Of that de-
PRAYED writer and most Infamous man will
come at last 10 be properly understood.
tshakspeare was mot only the most prolific
author OF demorallEing plays, calculated 70
corrupt the youth o. HE own age and all sue
ceedlng ages (thIough the dramatic merit,
happily exhibited --he was homicide, a
Thps Of The period, a man habltually given
10 murder, and led by this baleful pfocllvlty
10 the deeper guilt OF constantly maltreatlng
Mrs.. shakspeare and keeping late hours
with potlhouse companions. ~ .0.' ...
These facts have transpired at this late
period BY reason Of the discovery OF an old
manuscripts, In The family Of the Cherstows,
giving the substance Of conversations DO.
tween one Mrs. II. B. Cherstow and MIS-.
Shakespeare, short time before the death
Of the latter. The manuscript has been
published BY Loring, Of Boston, In o CON-
pact pamphlet, which will be generally ac-
oeptod as one Of the most valuable contribu-
tlous ever made 10 English literary history.
Mrs. Shakespeare was Induced 10 withdraw
the veil from the blackness OF her husbands
character chiefly that tho fatal effect Of his
writings, which had already begun 20 wane
In popularity, might DO forever therefore
negatived. When tho English people cauo
10 sec him In his true color, they would no
longer tolerate his literary remains either In
tho library or on the stage.
| The maloyolont playwright, Il seoms, was
nccustouned 10 allure the authors Of Inferior
dramas, whose plots he had stolen and I'm
mortallzed, Into the noighborhood or STRAIT
| ford, and there slay them, burying the
bodies under crab tree or q mulberry tree,
1 which no sometimes called an elder tree, az
convenience suited. His daughter was his
heudlSh accompllce In this work, and his
wife was fully acquainted with the facts,
but neither exposed them In Mr. shaks-
peAro's lifetime, nor abandoned her red
handed lord, with whom, however, her sub
sequent life OF 81 years was one couyulslYe
struggle with ga divided duty"
The terribla tragedies OF Shakspcaro, In.
decd tho whole Of his immoral writings, have
q now slgniAcance WHOM read BY the light Of
these astounding developmentss A hundred
passages the direst remorse will occur 10
any reader acquainted with the great, guilty
dramatist, In which Il 10 clear that his mind
was dwelling upon tho fearful details OF his
murderous career. Indeed, Mrs. Shaks-
peare sud Mr. H. b. Cherstow, her friend,
were painfully Impressed BY a suspicion that
this Cited mind was at times puhlnged.
Tho old manuscript recites the curious cir
cumstanoes under which MrB. Shakespeare
came 10 conilde 70 Mrs. Cherstow the dread ;
full secret--how Mrs. s. sent for her -how
she (Mrs. II. b. CO. went 10 stfatfoid--how,
having taken q memorandum OF the inter-
view 70 London, she asked for time 70 con-
siderthe propriety Of making ID known TO the
world, and advised rather waiting until
everybody who could deny the statement
should be dead, &C., &C. I.l. H'
But enough. Let all who feel interested
In having Shakespeare consigned 10 eVeflast-
Ing infamy buy the pamphlet, which may be
obtained Of any news agent for ten cents,
and "sup full Of horrors."' -