The Washington herald., 1915-05-19
indicating Shakespeare.

\ Nebraska college professor has discovered
that Shakespeare not naltstcr, and rcjoces
that he has been able TO demonstrate that the
divine affatus pronounced in that poetic genius
had not a remote relationship to the brewery.
Some people may be surprised that this import
ant discovery should have been left to Ne
braska man, but they should remember that it
was a Michigan man who discovered Bacons
cryptograms which confessed and proved that he
and not Shakespeare wrote all that has come down
through three centuries with the stamp of Shakes
pcarc it. We live so much in tho present that
many fairly well-niormcd readers may have for
gotten the discoveries of the Michigan doctor,
which made the discovery OF the Nebraska doctor
OF little consequence. If there William
Shakespeare. the poet. what matters it whether
he sold malt to the brewers or not:
The effort to dispose OF the Shakespeare ira
ditions has been going on for good many years.
by those who want diagram with every exhibit
ton OF genius The Nebraska doctor may be
able to convince the world that Shakespeare not
having been a maltSter and having had no direct
indirect connection with the brewery at STRAIT
ford, was model Sunday school boy; but there
other traditions to clear up before it can be
fully demonstrated by cugenic charts that his
genius conformed TO all the rules Of the eugen-
lists There is that old tradition that Shakcspeare's
idtner was a butcher as well as a farmer, ana
that the boy followed him in both trades: and
hat when he butchered calf he did it in high
style and made a Speech so that some of his
carly biographers traced directly to that incident
the memorable lines:
There is divinity that shapes ends,
Rough hcw them will
Others have traced back to this early occupa-
ton the lines
And as the butcher takes away the calf
And binds the wretch and beats it when it stays
Bearing it to the bloody slaughter house"
Shakcspeare's father was also said to have
been 4 dealer in wool. glover. and had several
other occupations with which the poet had init
mate association and which put him in touch with
the soil There the old tradition about the poach
ing, the conviction and punishment for stealing
deer and rabbits from the deer park of the noble
lord of the manor. which inspired his first satire
and sent him to London to become hanger
Of the theater, actor. theatrical manager and
then the greatest playwriter of all time. The
Puritans OF that day were even more opposed to |
the theater and poetry and dancing than they |
were to brewers and maltsters for many of these !
became Lords and Dukes, by the favor of the |
Crown in recognition of their services to human
ty and the country, and without opposition from |
the Puritans. But by the Puritan creed he who
attended the theater or danced or read poetry
was damned.
II the Nebraska doctor proposes to make !
Shakespeare a model Sunday school boy who
seorned to sven sell malt to the brewery. he
mas long road to travel in destroying many
other Shakespearean Traditions. some of which
nave strong hold on the people of England
md of this country. too. as his plays. However,
4 it is the real purpose of the Nebraska DOCTOR