The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-23
GREATNESS Of
SHAKESPEARE
Stories of the Devotion Men
Feel For Him.
KEATS FAMOUS WORD
Discovery of the Originals of
0theIl0 and DeSdemOna.
KEATS FAMOUS WORD

Jack Bannister, an English comedian
who fOurishod in the latter part of the
eighteenth century and the early part Of
the nineteenth. went TO the house in
Stratford where Shakespeare was born
10 make his homage. II was lis third
visit ia one day, and followed an ex-
trao1dinarily good dinner he threw him
self on the bed in which the dear lying
old woman then custodian Of the place,
had sworn Shakespeare was born, even
showing the chair IN which he was nurs-
ed. The comedian, in a vinous rapture,
sank back upon the historic couch and
nearly smothered Two children who had
been sleeping there until his ecstacies
awakened them.
William DAYTON, a famous Shakespear-
can actor Of the early part Of the last
century, is described by Matthews as
having Kicked up a great dust in the
house where Shakespeare was born. Inc
old woman who shows il remembered hi1n
well. He must have been delirious; he
desired to be left alone; There 20;
cannot have witnesses. 1 shall cry: ana
so-eh? The pride Of all nature has been
IN this room. must HneeI-Ieave me!
don't like people to see me cry"
How William Winter would have loved
William Dowton-and Jack Bannister, too.
for that matter
When Bowler outlined his idea of
purified Shakespeare to Dr. Harrington.
NO sir. said the old gentleman. let
Us, when we have the woodcock. enjov
the little trail (eauaiis) on the toast
remember" said Sir Henry Irving.
that at one of the REVEALS Of Shakes
pearean plays at the Lyceum a gentle
man leaving the theatre was heard to ex-
press the opinion that the play was not
bad one; that re thought it might have
q tolerable run. bat that it would be
very much improved by emitting the
quotations. The play was Macbeth. -
Some one told James T. Fields OF q pre-
tentious woman who was once heard TO
say 1t dinner table that she had never
read Shakespeare works herself. but
had always entertained the highest opin-
Ion Of him as a man"
a classic Shakespearean story relates
TO an old gentleman of Boston who be-
heVed that town could produce anything +
1t had the mind to He confessed that /
he never head the plays of Shakespeare.
Being advised TO by a friend at the OPEN I
Ing OF the winter he entered upon the I
task, which soon became a delight. When
the same friend met him in the spring
ne asked him if he had read any Of the
plays.
Yes, air. was the enthusiasts answer.
And do YOU like them?~
Like them. replied the venerable Bos-
tonian, that is not the word, sir, They
are glorious; far beyond my expectation,
There are not twenty men in Boston. sir,
VINO could have written these plays
Nine. de Stael vexed Heine by asking
him: What do you think of Shake
peare?" She might as vel have asked
me, wrote the indignant poet afterword.
what l thought of the universe"
On the margin Of an old folio copy of
Shakespeare plays was found this note
by the poet Keats: The gsnias OF
was an innate universally;
wherefore he laid the achievements of
human intellect PROSTATE beneath his in
aolent and idngly gaze. He could DO cas-
Ily mems utmost. Ills plan of tasks to
come was not OF this world. II what he
proposed to sdo hereafter would not in
The idea answer the aim. how tremendous
must have been his conception Of ulti-
mates"
a friend Of James T. Fields said that
reading 'Cymbeline through a margin
IF notes is like playing the pianoforte
With raittens on; and she was fond OF
quoting remark once dropped in her
hearing by an actress: Shakespeare sets
lis readers souls on fire with flashes of
genius; his commentators follow close be-
lind with buckets Of water putting ost
he flames. {
Who were Othello and Desemona? Did