Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-22
WIDESPREAD CELEBRATION OF
 SHAKESPEARE TERcENTENkRY
War WIII Not Interfere Greatly With Plan Outlined for Great Britain.

London. April 2I.-The-c win be widespread celebration Of thc Shakes Peare tercentenary. notwithstanding that war has interfered wl;h the more ambitious plans outlined Jy Inc com mittee two years ago
 April g Equivalent to May uz- der the new style calendarj will De the central date in the celebration. On that day 300 years ago the great dra- matist died at Stratford -on-A Avon. His exact birth date is more obscure. but there ts some ground for believing that he was also born on April 25. although the date may have been any where between April = and May q. of the year 1864.
 The National Tercentary committee. under the patronage Of the king and queen. has arranged for Shakespeare services in practically all the churches of the kingdom on April 30. with the principal service in Westminster Ab- bey. On Monday. May I. a meeting will be held in the Mansion. House. with an address, it is hoped. by the prime minister. and other speeches by various notables celebrating the na- tional memory Of She poet On May .. there will be a gala per torunapce or Julius Caesar under Royal Patronage at the Drury Lane theatre. with all the great English Shakes pearean stars as actors.
 May will be celebrated in the schools as Shakespeare Day On the same day. Professor John w. Mackail ! of Oxford will deliver the annual Shakespeare lecture at the British | Academy. and a national committee | will meet to arrange for permanent | memorial of the occasion in behalf of ! the school children of the natinon. On | Friday. the 5th. a pilgrimage takes place to Stratford-on-Avon. where the | chief actors of the day will give d | performance of scenes from Shakes ' pearean dramas at the Memorial thea tre.
 In London. a series of memorial lec- lures will be given by Sidney Lee at London University beginning Mrach | 1f while a similar course will be given at Gresham College by Professor Eos | ter Watson.
 The London Shakespeare League has l arranged for the unveilinS of a me
 morial in Curtain Road to mark the ! site of Shakespeare's Theatre in Shoreditch- Under the same auspices l there will be lectures on Shakespeare
 and a reading of Hamlet by Ben Greet. l Mir. Greet is also to be in charge 9f
 the presentation of twenty Shakes
 peare plays at popular prices in the old Victoria Hall
 The British Empire Shakespeare So-
 society will strike a commemorative
 medallion likeness which Will go to
 all parts of the world.
 Several of the London bCrnuEha VI n have celebrations o< their own. ETar.n-
 stead. for example. will have a series uf iec-ureG and readings. under ,se
 CnairEnanship of the mayor.
 i The national committee Is preparing
 Book of Homage which will contain
 tributes to the poet from various cor ners the glbe.
 At Stratford-on-Avon there win be
 fortnight of Shakespearean per formances. and a long series of special celebrations. including a procession to
 Shakespeare's church an6 a floral dec
 oration of the tomb in the chancel.
 Oxford is to have a Tercentenary , Exhibition at Bodley's Library. open
 ing on April q. Manchester has a committee of it's own which has ar . ranged an eiobartee series of lectures recitals. performances of songs, priZs competitions. and exhibitions. A per
 manent memorial will be provided a; Manchester in the form Of a Shakes peare Garden. laid out on lines paral- . Tel to that at Stratford-on-Avon.