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"Make it a simple dinner at the Claridge Grill and I'll go you." "Done!" There were four books on the desk near Mr. Tutt's right hand the New York Code of Civil Procedure, an almanac, a Shakesperean concordance and a Bible. "Look it up for yourself," said Mr. Tutt, waving his arm with a gesture of the utmost impartiality.
"My son is in water up to his waist out there in Argonne," echoes a third, as the group disbands. And yet people do go to the theatre. Gemier has made triumphant productions, with the translations of the Shakesperean Society, and true artist that he is, has created sensational innovations by way of mise-en-scène in the "Merchant of Venice" and "Anthony and Cleopatra."
"That means 'here lies' and nobody is telling stories." "She's got her Latin and Shakesperean English most awfully mixed," giggled one of the other girls. "And 'varlet' is the wrong gender, anyway," observed Bess. "Silence!" commanded the Mistress of Ceremonies. "Silence in the ranks. Will she not don the costume?"
Whitfield, when, with many apologies for the liberty he was taking, he offered him a five hundred pound bank note as his subscription towards the Tabernacle. Considering that Garrick had no particular sympathy with Nonconformists, this action speaks as much for his charity as a Christian as it does for his liberality as a man. Perhaps Richard III. remained Garrick's best Shakesperean character.
But to the general these finer threads are indiscernible. What touches them in the Shakesperean poetry, and most rightly touches them and us all, are topics eternally old, yet of eternal freshness, the perennial truisms of the grave and the bride-chamber, of shifting fortune, of the surprises of destiny, and the emptiness of the answered vow.
Hence, though Macaulay was in mental constitution one of the very least Shakesperean writers that ever lived, yet he has the Shakesperean quality of taking his reader through an immense gallery of interesting characters and striking situations. No writer can now expect to attain the widest popularity as a man of letters unless he gives to the world multa as well as multum.
Of course he played Cibber's version and not Shakespeare's. In fact, many of the Shakesperean parts were not played from the poet's own text, but Garrick might have doubted whether even his popularity would have reconciled his audiences to the unadulterated poetry of our greatest dramatist. Next to Richard, Lear would seem to have been his best Shakesperean performance.
The same Signor Jupe was to "enliven the varied performances at frequent intervals with his chaste Shakesperean quips and retorts." Lastly, he was to wind them up by appearing in his favorite character of Mr. William Button, of Tooley Street, in "the highly novel and laughable Hippo Comedietta of The Tailor's Journey to Brentford."
How far deeper is the view of Carlyle about some familiar personality like Johnson than is that of Macaulay, how much farther does Carlyle see into the Shakesperean firmament than even Coleridge! How far better does he understand Rousseau and Burns than did Southey, laureate and critic as he was hailed in his time.
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