New-York tribune., 1902-03-20


have known cared for the letter and spirit Of the
These meet US at every turn. A mimic play within
IL 80 ,i, :. 81 u; 'i!f M i.I tf, Iib
He makes Hamlet born actor. and an accom-
art Of acting and theatrical affairs have A point
that must have come much nearer home than Elsi-
Horatio: ST 'F'e d passage '''"Fe' '''''s' anu
Would not This sir and forest Of feathers.,if
two Pro-iugjal roses my razed shoes get mo a
fellowship IN cry Of players. sir:
a whole one. I"
This. Judge Allen says. refers to the custom
tion to the receipts" Even if Bacon had been ac-
agad it FaT e @ sd @ 5 f oad b have
introduced ii into a dialogue?
MANY THEATRICAL ASSOCIATIONS.
Not Hamlet alone but all the plays are charged
"poogy % IN HenrT for ha limited r6Grdss rs on
the stag properties for representAg the field Of
but why should it trouble BACON? In Romeo and
Juliet We are Teminded Of, Of the time limit OF Ita the
had Bacon to do with such detail? Shakespeare
ences Thus in King Henry VIII.':
There tho youths that thunder At play
once but the Tribulation Of Tower Hin or the
Limbs Of Iimehouse, their dear brothers. are able
Again in the Same play:
a., ,TiS is ten to one this play can never please
And sleep an aCr two: but those ", fear
We have friShted with frumpetS."
These genial observations are natural TO an actor.
/ that Bacon would have bantered the somnOleut
lads Of Tower Hill and the limbs Of L!mehouse'? D.?
Would he have rehuked the public taste for child
There is sir. an cyre Of children. little eyases.
/ that cry out on N" top Of the question. and are
! fashion
Here are topics Of tne theatre in theatrical par.
expression between Shakespeare and Bacon they
make no hgure. There is not the smallest reason
TO suppose that Bacon ever heard Of them. The
interests Of the theatrical profession had no con
cern for him. He was not the man 10 write
Good. my lord. viii you see the players well be-
slowed" Do YOU hear, let them be wen used for
they are the abstract and brief chronicles Of the
time. after your death you were better have a bad
epitaph than their i'll report while you live
II is this constant prcoccup3ton with the actors
runs through Shakespeare imagery. Macbeth fig
piaver who :strtS and frt eng ma" ~ me ne
stage" "All the worlds a stage and the men and
ers simulated grief for Hccuba and asks What he
would do had he The motive and the cue for pas
in shakespeare but rot IN Ba ron: =
Had Had You not come upon your cue my lord"
Now we speak upon our cue and voice is
Decetvine me- is Thisby's cue: she is to enter
You speak all your part At, once cues and all"
Who but an actor-paywrisht would harp upon the
When my cue comes, call me. ana will an
swer.'
ASSurAUlH
eye. Take "Coriolauus'
IT .tva, is I,a part that shall blush in aettns
Come come we'll prompt you."
Like a dull actor now
z-er have forgot or, my part and am out
In King Richard II We have this signal tribute
10 the actor who is not dull
As in a theatre. the eyes II men
After a well ETaced actor leaves tho stage
Are idly bent on him that enters next.
Think Thinking his 5. Prattle to be tedious:
Did sCowl on gtntle Richard"
,a,aTs1 Pag@n & Vas historian Is this the kind Of
IN commemorative the misfortunes Of king?
40 CARE FOR JUDICIAL PROCEDURE.
In the technicalities Of the stage Shakespeare is
always accurate: but when he employs legal terms
hemia coast. much TO the distress of Ben Jon
81 NH IN naIsat&m I he Starts ship rom The gates
~ he wonderful by Lord Campbell. hut does not
the trial scene in The Merchant Of TerjCa' hears
no resem6tHce 70 any Judicial procedure that ever
cedure and that the law which authorized Shv"cl
TO cut his pound Of Antoniois Aesb Eut foIf.ade
him to shed one drop of blood. va not sanctioned
at the pains to discover how much law was known
JHage Allen shows that legal terms abounded in
an the EAzabethan plays, and that Shakespeare's
sInrar ei PeaIo oiI9; Hidqet4n ChaPman Mas
Of legal phraseoIoey that is not to be found in
SfaAespfare are th@se writers to he taken sim
II not. what becomes Of the hypothesis that Bacon
must have written Shakespeare because shake
speare SO often quoted the iarccu Of LAWYERS
la no NOR reason Tor the contention that
ShdheE geaTes NINA must ne Bacon's because they
have ideas and expressions in common shake
chartered borrower. He was the mjcroc"sn7 Of bie
time. He held Goethes large views about pIagiar-
piauded both transacffons 'i' ei ~ ana he an
/ Sip r,a.e1,ra
the whole Of his Indebtedness to old plays Some
s4es sId so ne quoted Marlowe with acknowledgment
- - Gear mat ne mad a great respect for Mar
Baconian enthusiasts explain this by assuming
that Bacon wrote both Shakespeare and MarloWe
the cipher story to for the incredihle con
81 bacoh : essays n" uses the expression dis
coursing wits. for people Of giddy minds" Ford
connection. Must Ford be added to the list Of
Baco1s conquests? ] am told that because Bacon
Hamlet CIT is nipping and an eager air'D there
sort Of reasoning to the whole f.IjZabet han @lT dr ms mn
in tangle from which cipher will rescue any
What is the secret Of shakespeares grasp of life?
SSiInpiy his pr2digious faculty OF assimilation He
TOOK TOOK IN t,IeryIhng at the pores He had no great
scholarship. The translated Putarch served him
SO SO ". Wen IIlat ne turned whole passages into dra-
pauc speecheS without changing a word This by
dead some tirnr that csG - ItI PiutarCh had been
in The eves Of neoI 1Ial cannot be valid objection
Ought fs smao son Of Queen They
the hated Shakespeare Of his glory.
STUDENT OF HUMAN NATURE.
But without great scholarship and with absolute
y careless notions about law and geography and
urable receptivity Of all that concerned human
character An oracle lately dismissed the idea that
great poet could have been d poacher in his
W2E XW92Epth and and could have consorted with topers
nourlsh at the B0ars Head in Eastcheap2 What
Eiia MN W ms i, TsI,n Tor the escapades Of Prince