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Updated: June 18, 2025
Holmes's "Last Leaf" was another. Shakespere was his constant delight. A copy of Shakespere's works was even to be found in the busy Executive Office, from which most books were banished.
But an old acquaintance, who called to see him, assured him smilingly that he was all right and would soon be well. He talked in such a strain that the sick man was forced to laugh; and the effort so roused his system that he rallied, and he was soon well again. Was it not Shakespere who said that a light heart lives long?
This company produced the plays some of which, by 1598, bear "W. Shakespere," or "William Shakespeare" on their title-pages. "William Shakespeare" or "Shakespere" was thus, in my view, the ideally worst pseudonym which a poet who wished to be "concealed" could possibly have had the fatuity to select.
Glover the poet; here is Homer, toying with Madam Dacier, and profoundly indifferent as to his birthplace and the continuity of his poems; here, too, is Shakespeare, who, foreseeing future commentators and the "New Shakespere Society," declines to enlighten Betterton and Booth as to a disputed passage in his works, adding, "I marvel nothing so much as that Men will gird themselves at discovering obscure Beauties in an Author.
Mechanically he took his Confessio Amantis, and sat down, but never opened it; rose again and took his Shakespere, opened it, but could not read; rose once more, took his Vulgate, and read: 'Quid turbamini, et ploratis? puella non est mortua, sed dormit. He laid that book also down, fell on his knees, and prayed for her who was not dead but sleeping.
The actor he addresses belongs to one of them. Tucca mentions two theatres by name 'your Globes, and your Triumphs. He says to the actor: 'Commend me to seven shares and a half. Shakespere and his colleagues had certain fixed shares in the 'Globe; and the words of the actor, as regards the poor winter they had, confirm that which Shakspere gives to understand in Hamlet, that 'there was, for a while, no money bid for argument, unless the poet and the player went to cuffs in the question.
Then Proserpine vanished, and William awoke from his dream, and went home to his butcher's shop. Soon after this he left his native village and went to London, where he became well known; although how his surname shall be spelt is a matter of dispute, some spelling it Shakespeare, some Shakespere, and some Shaksper. Ferroll was an intellectual, and he prided himself on the fact.
To carry out a practical joke of the Christopher Sly sort we require, as Shakespere saw, the resources of a prince. But once grant possession of unlimited wealth, and the possibilities of mischief rise to a grandeur such as the world has never realized.
What I mean is, that in Italy it is still impossible to separate the soul and body of the soil, to say, as you may say in London or Paris, here behind this sordid grey mask of warehouses and suburban villas lurks the soul that once was Shakespere or once was Villon. Do the gondoliers still sing snatches of Ariosto? I don't know Venice.
Prohack the price of a complete Shakespere, but he did not call it dear. He threw the paper away with a free optimistic gesture of delight. Yes, he had wisely put his trust in old Paul and he was veritably a rich man one who could look down on mediocre fortunes of a hundred thousand pounds or so. Civilisation was not so bad after all.
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