The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-12

e--e % TIE ROYAL college, has said fsaf
the best definition Of insanity Is 20 lie
found IN Hamlet in the closer scene
with the queen mother.
Shakespeare Was q nan OF genius. and
men OF rsnius do not date from great
schools OF learning Genius : q saw VITO
Itself: when the hour comes x does ~hAt
il must The rare genius or ooseryasion.
Imagination. contemplation Is the nsS-
terry Of Shakespeare
Many ask me how 60 read Shakespeare
I Rad him once before reading any com
mentators- for connection. again TOT lsh-
gz1are. then for the philosophy. ana AFTER
that read him rhir-y-ihres times, ard
only regret that have not tine 10 READ
him oftsE1er. Simplicity Is snaAespeate
charm; Il takes no doctor or literature
20 read him. al could IND him good
companion. IN Joy. n adversely n ~or-
row."
Mr. warsse then reviewed Hamlet and
Julius Caesar. ard said Hamlet" was
the most popular and the most CON-
rnsrsed upoa play Of Shakespeare The
German commentators on Hamlet were
the best. and Mr.. warde leans toward
Goethe. who compares Hamlet 10
beautiful vase IN which mower should
have been planted. but by chance the
death OF Haunle,'s father over which the
young Hamlet brooded and al last sue
cs1nhed. shattered IL Mr.. Warde did not
think that Hamlet was insane, but at
aictei with meizncholia- And thus the
native hue OF resolution Is sscklied over
with the pale cast OF thought" Thus the
sentiment expressed in these lines was
the cause of his delay.
All through Mr.. Wsrde recited in his
peerless manner the most important PAS
sages of the play, among them PoloniuS'
advice 10 his son Laertes, true fatheriy
advice, and wished that IL could De seen
hanging in every school and college In
the United States Hamlets Instructions
10 the actors OF the mouse trap cornbi-
ua ton covered every detail OF the art,
and II followed would lead an actor 10
success
Dir. warde then proceeded to the play
OF Julius Caesar" which he called enc
OF the grandest OF Shakespeare's Plays
and the greatest educator of all He said
a student could learn more by listening
10 the play OF Julius Caesar" which
takes three hours TO be produced prop
srly than three weeks in the class room.
and the incentive gained led on 10 great
est efforts in historical studies. Some
times the author distorts the historical
facts, bat In the main they are authentic.
One great exception stands out In Rich
ard ILL.," but this character, malsgned
as he was TO please Queen Elizabeth, viii
live. while the historic character has. al
ready died. The characters and appear
ance OF the principal characters were de-
scribed-the naughty Julius. who wore a
crown of laurel leaves voted by he sen
ate 10 cover his bald head. Mr. Warfa
who has a bald head. remarked that IL
was an Improvement on modern headgear.
The play Julius Caesar" showed US the
dignity and character of a man. Brurus.
hv not saying Get thee behind ne
Satan" causes all the trouble. Cassius'
tale of Caesars ambition fell on fertile
soil. and from the planted seed grew 10
blossom. and from the blossom 70 the
fruit. Mn Warde exhorted the audience
not TO listen 10 evil counsels. The differ
ence between Brutus' and Antoay's
speech over the dead body OF Caesar was
that Brutus' is an Grafton and Antony's
has no right 10 be called such. Mr.. Warde
then gave the speech OF Antony, pointing
out the sophistical and fallacious points
in II, and how the orator aroused the in
terest, then the curiosity and other emo
tions. in fact what a consummate actor
Antony was.
This recital was tho most brilliant IN
the address and worth going many miles
TO hear. lie then followed the play 10 the
end. giving the important soliloqules.
The speaker remarked that the exquis-
tie spirit of Christianity prevailed I'm all
of Shakespeare's plays. and no one Of his
characters good or had. expresses IN
belief IN the existence OF an ail-wise
Being. The speaker gave as illustrations
some OF the soliloquies OF Cardinal Wool
sey and the dialogue between him and
Cromwell In Henry VIII" a character
in whom he saw no redemption. MIR.
warde then ended his delightful address
by a fine thought on the life work OF
Shakespeare and the imperishabie monu-
ment left in his work that would outshine
the works of any and all other authors.