SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY.
1«» , It may not be known to all that to-morrow (Tuesday) is the anniversary ot the day on which it is "belieVed that bhakespeare was born. To celebrate the occasion, the Wellington Shake&pearj? Club proposes on that night to giye a public reading of tho poet's comedy, "The Merry Wives of Windsor." In referring to this particular play, Cowden Llarke. the Shakespearian commentator, writes : " 'The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of those delightfully happy plays of Shakespeare, beaming -with sunshine and good humour, that makes one feel tho better, the lighter, and the happier for havflig seen or read it. The whole play of the- 'Merry Wives' is, as it were, a village or even homestead pastoral of middle-class life in Shakespeare's day. It is all movement and variety, from the first scene to the last, and is perhaps the most complete specimen of Shakespeare's farcical or lo v-uvmiu powers." Particulars of this -i : • £ appear elsewhere in this issue.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 2
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162SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 2
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