SHAKESPEARE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 748, 22 February 1910, Page 5

SHAKESPEARE.

Sv;DE.;,WAIi^'S;)}ESEAECHES. ; :':' : : jßy.Toleffraiih-Preaa Aesociatlon-popyrlßht. ] •"';■ 'S:^ ": : ..- ; -';-.- ;,,.:,London;^.February.,2o.' .' Dr. Charles' Wallace, in': an .articlo. in ■ Magazine,''' gives further inter- ; esting '■ details of , Shakespeare's; 'life from in .■ the. vrecordP'pfficelH'Thp :.article;.throwßi. : V;T'alnabib.,'{side-lights} on iShakespeare's-.works 1, produced.■ between 15Mland'/16M.;f! , ;;v'.v : :'^-v::.:. : :^.^.;;v';;'iV

■■[Dr. Chas. Wm. ; Wdllace' is Professor, (of .English- Literature, in ;'the'University of Nebraska.: Among .other details, resulting from' ; Dr.'. Wallace's recent discoveries,.':it is, learned that' Shakespeare' owned'. tirico. as'many'Bhares in ith'e.Blackfriors,as iii '■.the' 1 ' Globe' .■ Theatre, , /but;' that , the Matter, was twice .as : prolitable 'as the -former. Shakespeare V.annual "share{of the .profits of; thei Globe 'never.;.:exceeded ;i£3oo, -.and. quite; possibly-was-not, as, inuch, as this was' the 'sum ,m en Honed, "-■ in ' the. ' legal Sapers,',' which. were not; likely- to", err. on ie side ' of. .understatement.'. ; .-It' {appears, therefore,'.'that. '.Shakespeare's.,',income from ;,' the, two theatres ': llid ' not -,' exceed i£6oo' ; 'a year.-'This,' however; of. course meant much {more:3oo years ago: than.it' does■ to-day.] '.'■.'.■■''.■;' '■".".' '-■•'• ■'■ ";"■ '; '-'•■'■■'■ r