Abstract:
The New York Times: Shakespeare Tercentenary: 1616-1916. -- The World Today Commemorates the Great Life That Ended 300 Years Ago -- Shakespeare's Fame Still "In It's Great Morning": Famous and Popular at Thirty, His Name Has Grown to Overshadow the World of Letters, Curious Blindness of the Eighteenth Century-How Germany Came to Know Him -- Milton's "Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare." -- William Basse's Poem, to Which Ben Jonson Replied -- Two Great Tragedies- A Great Tragedienne -- The Man Himself: Being A Character Sketch: "Handsome, Well-Shapt," a Wit and Good Fellow, Popular, Friendly, and Unspoiled by Admiration -- Landseer's Fairy Revel-Falstaff's Troubles -- Shakespeare His Only Biographer, Said Emerson: How He Set Forth the View That Nothing is Known of the Poet Except as Revealed in His Works -- Dr. Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare as an Artist: The Much Discussed Criticism in His Famous Preface.
Description:
Digitized from original print, Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, October 5, 2016. Additional information, along with text of document, found with the Library of Congress. Link to the February 20, 1915: https://www.loc.gov/item/sn78004456/1916-02-20/ed-1/