SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 17

SHAKESPEARE QUARTERLY

Belated, but welcome, comes No. 1 of Volume 11. of the ' Shakesperian Quarterly," founded by Mr.- Allan Wilkie, and published in Sydney. Its contents are interesting to all readers of Shakespeare and those attracted by his plays. There is an able criticism by J. H. Ha-rvey, of Mr. Wilkie's production of "Julius Caesar," " with special reference to the presentation of the role of Casca. " Shakespeare in Bolshevik Russia." is dealt with by L. Noskowski, who shows that since the gradual evolution of more moderate ideas in the Russia of to-day, the plays of. Shakespeare are again increasing in public favour. Debating societies are free, by permission of the authorities, to discuss the poet and his plays. Swinburne as a critic of Shakespeare is criticised by Georg<v Underwood. The' famous actor, G. V. Brooke, who -went down in thf. London, in the Bay of Biscay, in 1867, is the subject of a most interesting article by John Coleman, written in 1885. It is full of anecdotes and reminiscences of the stage in mid-Victorian days. Mr. Hector Bolitho writes on a contemporary portrait of Shakespeare, painted on copper and discovered in private possession at Toowoomba, Queensland, and attributed to Cornelius Janssen. The " Ballad of References in Shakespeare," by Professcr J. C. Johnson, are continued, with quaint musical illustrations. This " Quarterly " is embellished with a facsimile of Shakespeare's will, a. reproduction of the Toowoomba portrait, and old photographs of Q. V, Brooka, .flltegether a full', end instructive number.