SHAKESPEARE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 14

SHAKESPEARE

A JOLLY’MAN DEAN INGE AND THE BARD LONDON, Oct. 20. “What did Shakespeare do with the last five years of his life in retirertient at-Stratford-on-Avon? I wonder our. friends have not suggested the obvious answer," said Dean Ingo. ‘‘He wrote the works of Francis Bacon," The dean was speaking a* a Juneheon to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the. Temple Edition ot Shakespeare and to inaugurate the publication of the new edition. Three hundred Shakespcareans, including many people famous in literature’ and the theatre, ate a meal such &« Shakespeare relished in the 1590’5. Marigold flowers, were among the ingradients of one dish —“hodgepodge.” •Dean Inge skid Shakespeare was a “jelly, man of the world with a thoroughly sweet and healthy nature. Shakespeare was a typical middle-class Englishman in character. He bought the host country house in Stratford, anil as soon as he could afford to do so retired to live there, I don’t believe he unlocked his heart in any plays, or uhv other works; nor do I think he over had.any inkling of the glorious ff-’C* . I* l store for him. As for the sonnets, I doti’t believe they contained ebnfessions. People don’t sit down and write poetry when they arc really unhappy. As Coleridge once said; ‘When a marc is unhappy he writes d—— bad poetry.’ "