'Was there ever such thing as great Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you - what - was there not sad stuff?'

'My Lords and peacocks.'

'I glory in the name of Briton!'

'Six hours sleep are enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.'

The verbal poetic texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays.

The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would…

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, g…