ACCORDING to the testimony of one of the evening papers, a French writer, commenting, during the past month, on the Shakespeare Tercentenary, in a moment of enthusiasm described the great poet as le divin Williams. To be called the divine Williams by ...
ACCORDING to the testimony of one of the evening papers, a French writer, commenting, during the past month, on the Shakespeare Tercentenary, in a moment of enthusiasm described the great poet as le divin Williams. To be called the divine Williams by a Frenchman is a species of apotheosis which the living Shakespeare probably never contemplated. In the course of the last few months the spirit of Shakespeare has gone through a strange ordeal, and found itself introduced to the strangest of companions.