WHAT SHAKESPEARE DID.
William Dean Howells, the wellknown American author and critic, tells this Shakespeare story:— "In Stratford.", he says, "during ,one of tho Shakespeare jubilees, an American tourist approached an aged villager in a- smock and said: — ■ " ' \\Tio is' this chap Shakespeare, anyway.' " '•He-wore'a- writer, sir.' "■'■OV, but there are lots'of writers. Why •do you- make' such an infernal fuss-over this one? Wherever I turn I see Shakespeare hotels, Shakespeare cakes,- Shakespeare chocolates, Shakespfear'e shoes. •What the deuce did ho write—-magazine stories, attacks on tho Government.^shadv. novels?' ' - No, sir; oh, no, sir.'said the agedvillager. 'Punderstand ho.writ for the Bible, .sir.-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11755, 20 July 1916, Page 1
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