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Great interest has been aroused. by the theories of Dr. G. R. Owst, who, after ton years of research, claims to have proved that the 'accepted explanation of the Re- naissance as a sudden uprising of literary genius on the part of the people is all wrong,
He maintains that it was basedl on, and in some cases copied word for word from the sermons of the mediaeval preachers,
Current' ideas will have to be completely revised if his thesis is accepted, us seems likely, for many experts have already ex- pressed their agreement with his views. Recently there has been a tendency for expert opinion. to move in this direction, stimulated, particularly, by the work of Pro- fessor R. W. Chamers. Dr. Owat received the degree of L.tt. D. at the last congregation of the Cam- bridge University year.
SERMONS IN SHAKESPEARE.
Dr. Owst has had to unearth and read hundreds of MSS. which have not been looked at for centuries. Besides detailing act- ual cases where passages can be found word for word in the print- ed sermons of the great mediaeval preachers like Bromyard and Brunton, his method has been to analyse the great body of medias- val sermons, and show that, as a whole, they are of the stuff of which poetic and dramatic litera- ture is made.
In the book which he has recent- ly published he contends that the preachers wore in touch with the affairs of daily life in a way which few people realise. The pulpit constantly inveighed against wo- men making-up and the bad mau- ners of the younger generation, while the following quotation from a. XIII. Century preacher might have been written to-day:
"The besetting sin of modern parliaments is that many counsels are given, but none are carried out. Therefore, they well deserve the name 'Parliament' since there is much parleying, but the result belles wholly or in great part those things which had been spoken and ordained."
Dr. Owst traces the homiletic influence which Bunyan, Chaucer and Langland-author of "Tho Vision of Piers Plowman" under- want, and asserts that an eccle- siastical influence can be found even as late as Shakespeare. What is Hamlet but a sermon on the effects of sin? he asks. Macbeth, he asserts, is but a study of con- clence, Antony and Cleopatra a study of woman as the seducer-a favourite subject with mediaeval preachers and Coriolanus a study in pride.
SUPPORT FOR THE THEORY.
Experts have expressed the following opinions of his work:
Miss Elleen Power, who is noted for her work in this direction: "Mr. Owat has amply proved his point. It will be impossible to omit mediaeval preachers from among the spiritual forebears of Bunyan, whose use of abstract personification they forestalled." Mr. Shane Leslie: "It proves that, thanks to the pulpit, the literary tradition was never lost, that Tuder English was not a sudden bloom, and that even the English Bible must be set against a continalty of English devotional.
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Dr. G. G. Coulton, one of the greatest living.experts on the sub- ject: Dr. Owat han adenite thesis which he defends explicitly from first to Inst, and in my judg. ment with complete snccosa. Much of what is most effective In our poets, and much of what has often been acclaimed as most original is an echo from the mediaeval pulpit. Latimor him aolf, an Dr. Owst truly insists, was on these points, simply a continua- tor of modinoval tradition."
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