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...succeed in conveying a proper illusion as English statesmen. Mr. Guy Bates Post in the leading role was always interesting and sometimes admirable. At the end of anticlimax No. 1, Mr. Tully, the producer, announced somewhat unnecessarily "that Mr. Post would be soon seen again in these parts in 'Hamlet'--or something worth while." We fear he was just being witty. But Mr. Post would be adequate in anything...
After knowledge of self, knowledge of others is the first necessity of wisdom. Theories of life on Mars, knowledge of the eighty elements, an ability to quote extensively from Hamlet, or to write free verse, will in no way make up for this most fundamental sort of wisdom...
...brought into his service the finest actors of the time and distinguished artists, musicians and scholars. He has kept Shakespeare on the stage. From 1897 to the present time he has made each year a magnificent production of one of Shakespeare's plays: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' 'Hamlet.' 'Julius Caesar,' 'King John,' 'A. Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'King Richard III,' 'The Tempest,' 'Much Ado About Nothing,' 'The Winter's Tale,' 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'The Merchant of Venice,' 'King Henry VIII,' 'Macbeth,' 'Othello,' and since 1905 has given an annual Shakespeare Festival, including many of these plays...
...With the sole exception of Hamlet, no other character in all of Shakspere's plays, who does not definitely take the part of a Fool, wears trappings, which were a part of the conventional garb of the Court Fool," declared Mr. Noyes. "This and numerous other instances throughout the play lead me to believe that Shakspere meant to typify in Harlet the 'Wise Fool' of the early English courts at his greatest point of development...
...Noyes believes that Hamlet, with his intellectual ecstacy, was merely an apotheosis of Shakspere's former creation. Touchstone the Fool. Mr. Noyes maintained that it is difficult to conceive how critics could support the madness of Hamlet in the face of the fact that Shakspere himself ridicules other characters in the play for holding this same belief. In their swift, subtle phrases, modified by infinite jest and exquisite fancy, Hamlet and Touchstone can be identified as one and the same creation; and their further loyalty to love, and love for worship, seal their close relationship...