SHAW AND SHAKESPEARE
Mr. George Bernard Shaw, judging from the report in a London paper of an interview with him, has re\ ised his opinion of Shakespeare. (One 01 his prefaces is headed, " Better Than Shakespeare.") Mr. Shaw is reported as saying: " The publication or performance of a play of mine in the state in which Shakespeare's plays appear in the First Folio would drive me crazy. But I fully admit that Shakespeare's •aioulation that it was hotter to spend his time writing ' Macbeth ' than revising ' Hamlet ' was justified. But then Shakespeare was a volcano from whom plays burst like lava. 1 am by comparison a tidy old maid." Mr. Shaw added that he wrote diaries in Pitman's shorthand, and had done so ever since he could afford a secretary. He uses the Pitman system because it i.s the one most generally known to secretaries, and can be written very legibly and fully,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)
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