Shakespeare Conference
The third annual conference on plays of Shakespeare was opened recently in the Memorial Theatre Conference Hall at Stratford-on-Avon by Dr. G. B. Harrison, who spoke on "The Universality of Shakespeare," says an exchange. There were two doubts, he said, which must have occurred to all.
The first, whether they should concern themselves with discussing plays when civilisation might disintegrate at any moment. The answer was that if tlioy believed in things of the spirit their value was greater and not less at times of anxiety. By their aid they achieved and preserved sanity; and he recommended a mixed course of Shakcspears's plays to any who could not sleep at nights The tragedies would purge them of ignoble fears; the comedies would keep them 'snne; and the histories would show that it had all happened before.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 10 (Supplement)
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138Shakespeare Conference New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 10 (Supplement)
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