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"THE TEMPEST," THEORIES ABOUT A FASCINA.

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tablo:" again, "exter certain reapers properly habited; they in with the Nymphs in a graceful dance towards the end whereof Prospero starts suddenly and speaks; after which to a strange hollow and confus The Tempest is in some respects ed.noise they heavily banish.* All almost unique among the plays this is quite un-Shakraparean.

(d.) Compared with the other com- attributed to Shakespeare. It would be probably a mere name but for the edies of Shakespeare The Tempest First Folio of 1633. In that shows an almost total absence of mysterious volume it holds the wit in the interplay of dialogue,

(o.) Not only is it the only play premier position, serving as Introduction to the whole book, and with a background of the sea and this notwithstanding the date and sea-faring life (for Periclés is not the 4amn in this respect) bat it is the only kitory of the play.

dominant one where magic is a element,

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the candidato passed · through Purgatory: in the Greater Initiation be ritually attained Paradise."

CONVICT'S ESCAPE.

DISGUISED IN CHAPLAIN'S

CLOTHES.

A sansation was caused in the I la

Let us see how the three parties aro subjected to these rites. (1) Of the first party buc little can be said, for they fail in initiation. Bot it is noticeable that, when Stephano and Trinonio are driven away from the of Wight by the escape from Camp atrance to Prospero's or, the stage hill Prison for, habitual criminals of direction is:"Eater divere Spirits William Mason, whose sentence had in the shape of hounds, and hunt them

about."

QUEBEC CAUSE CELEBRE,

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PUBLISHER CITED TO THE BAR.

which be retired after cozeiderable publicity in connection with charges positions were making large sums by that various Montrealers in public grafting, houses of ill-fame, and: gam- bling house. Won he tried atum. persace crusade in Australia be was refused admittance to that Comman wealth. Recently he returned to Montreal, and started a paper called | "The Axe," which attained actoriety

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1927.

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Great interest is displayed through- out the Province of Quebec in the Gural course adopted by the Quebec. Legislature in citing to the Bar of. ¡Parliament Mr. Johcs Roberts, of only a few more months to run. He Montreal, in connection with the had previously served sentenos at recent attacks on members of the (2) The Court Party who are can the prison, and was well acquinted Quebec Legislature in the weekly. didates for the Lesser Initiation have

By bie Paper called "The Axe." Ruberta was once secretary of the Province of ()to suffer imaginary and false terror with the surroundinge. (b) to experience the ball, ronrer (c) good conduct he had been allowed, Quebeo Temperanca Sasiety, from to pass through Purgatory. In refer parole, which included quarters in the ence to the Grst of these it will be ostis situated in the prison yard. noticed that the vessel was caid to split; that the party wers all plunged Shortly before seven o'clock, when the into the foaming brine with a narrow warder come on duty and visited a oscape from drowning. While at the son's cabin he found the door open, end of the play wo learn that the the lock having been unscrewed, sad vessel was safe and sound. Although Mason was missing. B-fore taking they were all plunged under the aes, his departure, which be accomplished we are told with emphasis four times that the salt water did no harm by scaling an 8lt wall, he broke into aven to their clothes (" our gariuents the officers' club, where he had been by the publication of standalone mat are now as fresh as when we put employed, helped himself to whisky ter which other newspapers ignored: them on Erst in Afrin"). The and rum and about 309. Ha also Recently, Roberts published a scree reader has of coarse, to notice this took advantage of the chaplain's ticual issue of "The Axe." with a baptismal rite of immersion and ite abare to enter his qua ters and take series of articles purporting to subjectivò significance.

clothing and food. An alarin was expose the scandalous efforts of Then we have the initiatory rits of [ra sed, and officers were despatchd Givernment quartera to bide the real to various parts of the island but facts connected with the murder of a Seb. "Whiles, we stood here trour Mason had cluded captors. He is an irl named Blanche Garneau, of tbo.bull roarer,

fing your repose,

lieved to have disguised him ell in the Quebec, a working girl who was Even now, we heard a bollow burst chaplain's bat and clothing and a criminally assaulted and murdered in The play was first acted at courtia

of bellow ng like bulls or rather lious. man answering his description was Quebec City park over a year ago.. 1613, and 1611 seems to be the earliest reference to it indeed, few critics (f.) Among the so-called Shake-

Did it not wake you! It struck seen in the vicinity of Amrton. The and around whose murder ever since mine sar moet terribly.

clue was followed but without success. many rumours have been current,, plaes it much earlier than this date.spearean plays it is the only one which Many critics look upon it as the last, makes an attempt to conform to the

Ant. U 'twas din to fright, a places of axit 'rom the island are including gossip that the girl was monster's ear, to make an earthquake: being carefully watched. This is tho killed by two young men highly con- or at any rate the penultimate work Greek unitice.

(8.) Tested by ita attitude to Shake.

sure it was the four

first escape from Camphill Prison, nected in provincial Government of the master genius-the wistful

"Tho

which is situated on the borders of circles, an'l that as a result epecial farewell of the great playwright speare's favourite subjects

made to prevent and its theatres. Tempest" becomes sa outcast among to the world

passage Parkhurst Forest, near Albany Bar efforts As Prospero deffa bie magic the plays.

The The Premier, Me. Taschereau, cloak and leaves his "airy spirits" to (b.) Shakespeare's treatment of through Purgatory. Ariel in his racks, and about one mile from Park- exposure."

and burst penal establishment..

inmates have privileges which are moving the Legislature proceedings, their fate, so here Shakespeare bids his farewell to the stage and retires to

denied those at the adjoining prison, said that. the article published in including indoor and outdor games. "The Axe" practically charged that Stratford for the evening of his dage "to still his beating mind."

Tobacco is supplied and civilian clothe murder was committed by two thing worn. The inmates have no deputies, who were not arrested. because they were members of the night guards over them,

Legislature. The article in question was formally rend by the Speaker of the Legislature, following which Captain Bromley, who has been the members unanimously adopted Bring Your dismissed bis ship for losing the light the Premier's resolution that the cruiser "Raleigh "asiater ship of article eodetituted a violation of the the Hawkins," flagship of the China dignity of the Quebec Parliament, and Station-served a couple of pre-war instructed the Berjeant at Arms to Montreat and arrest commissions on the Chind Station. A proceed to for both Captain Bromley and Lieut of the Legislature on the afternoon of good dial of cympathy is expressed Roberta and bring him before the bar This step, which Roberts enant Batt, (the navigating offior. Nov. 2.

is

women and his analysis of their character, disposition, moods, etc., is unique; but in "The Tempest" the vory word "woman" is only mention But all the critice were by no means ed twice; and in the plural three tified with this view. Thu play is times;-and these are quite colourless too peculiar for that. Not only is it references and do not betray the the shortest, says one of the plays; it master hand.

(i.) We find that all of the plays are is probably the best Shakespearean (opposing the others to have been fall of the subject of howar and bore written by the same hand) of the manship and its technique. In "The plays. In structure, too, it differs Tompeat the word "horse" from the others. In this play there never mentioned and the only are more remarks on the lips of reference to "colts"-is in an insigni. characters which have apparent ficant simile.

(1) Another of the commonest ly no integral connection with the subject matter than in any of Shakespearean subjects in falconry other of the works of Shakespeare, with its attendant vocabulary. Again, Then, too, the play lends itself to al absolutely no reference to this subjec legories interpretation and critics occurs in "The Tempest." .. bave used endless ingenuity in devis (k.) But perhaps nowhere in the ing allegorical meanings. Dryden play is the absence of the mister hand. and Davenant even attempted a kind shown so much as in the blank verea of parody, a counterpart to the and week endings of the lines. Shakespearean play, in which there Nothing is more noticeable in the play was a man who bad never seen a than the, "weak endiugs"

the separation of the auxiliaries In the last couple of years the play from their attendaut verbs. has received more attention than few examples may be given over-criticism, some adverse, some merely interpretative or friendly.

WOMAD.

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und are melted into nir."

and

A

and Harmonious charmingly (IT)

but For every trifle (II 2.)

but If thou dost break (IV 1.)

upon Some god (I 2.)

Mr. Looney recently published book entitled "Shakespeare Identi- Bed," which be tried to prove that w-the real author of the plays was not the sator of Stratford but. Edward de Vers, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. If by your art my dearest father, To some readers Mr. Looney way you have Put the wild waters in this

on the strangeness (V 1.) And there verbal atrocities:-

have Been (VI)

bave proved-bis-case-he-certainly-roar, allay them." gives a good account of himself. The j grest crux of tie theory is "The

have Incensed (111 3.) Tempest." The Tempest" was wild Revenge (1112) written by the same auther as the For all these and various other reet of the playa they cannot be by de reasons Mr. Looney concludes that Vere; for de Vere was dead before the play is not by the same author The Tempest" (could have 1) as the other plays attributed to appeared. What then is Mr. Looney Shakespeare.

Of a whole herd of fions." Lastly, consider the

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sperch to Alonzo, Sebastian Antonio, zayed

They

.do pronounce by one

Lingering perditi, worse than any death

Can be at once, skall, step by step, altend

You and your waye; whose wraths to guard you now, which here, in this most desolate isle, else falle

Upm your beade, is nothing, but heart a corrh

And n

I'n clear life eneming... (8) Ferdinand who undergoes the Greater Initiation bas to suffer (a) a Spartan diet (b) real labours, and to attain to (c) Paradise.

Prospero tella Ferdinand: "Sea water shalt thou drink; thy ford shall bo

The freeb brook mussele, withered roots, and Lusks.

Where to the acorn cradled The round of the penances which was to be undergone especially by chiefs and leaders was real Inbours, Listen to Ferdinand

"I most.remove "game thousands

of these logs and pits them ap

Upon aerei junition "

In the third and last case, the initiate in the Greater Ceremony was

werd

who has also beau dismissed his ship), has apparently been challenging the whose defence was that the charts, Legislature to take, was exp cted. issued to the "Raleigh" were in Should Roberts continue the demanda accurate, and had they been correct, for an investigation of the charg 8 thewaleigh" would have patred, made in bis paper, a Legislativa Com. Point Amour in safety. The-Raleigh" mittee will be appointed to make an bad bafa flagship of the North inquiry, following the lines adop American and West Indies Station ted in several similar inci far few months, when she was dente in the past ball century. The stranded and lost on the coast of whole procedure is unprecedented, Labrador last August,

of the play....

Yet the Poet,

to have a vision of Paradies. Now contrary to the standards of good con-

javolving a Legislative inquiry into charge and insinustions against not only deputica, bat against the re latives of those prominently in Government circles whose names have frequently barn connected with the

it is Trkable that the Carestriction, shatters the whole effect of Blanche Garneau murder, which bids Margus in the play' is witnessed by Ferdinand and Miranda only. At Pro, pero's revelation by making Ariel fair to become a cause celebrethrough the sight of it Miranda is dumb but sing-at the, erucial moment a song out the Dominion. Ferdi and says

that seems to be qu'te without the slightest relevance."

"This is a most majestie vision.““.

To do Mr. Still justics a much fuller. It is particularly rema·lable that the Masque not only todays Cresummary of bis theories would be neceuary. but this simply cannot be, (Dem ter) who was the presidio Ten criticisms are almost obvious. deity of the Eleusinian mysteries, A play which demands so large a but also has an allesion to the knowledge of the ancient riter of carrying off of Persephone by Pluto Initiation on the part of the audience While the Ma que" is going before ita allusions can be alderstood Ferdinand actually exclaims that he (and it must be remembered that the Flouriniso myatories were always esoteric), fails in one of the most im portant esentials of a great play. In fact. the theory sarme almost equivalent to saying that the play is

a wise.

to do? There is only one obvious More recently Mr. Colin Still thing. Wipe out "The Tempest" has published a book on. "Theis in Paredi e

80 attempt "Let me live here for ever: from the Shakespeare plays. This Tempest. This is

entirely a special at an

So rate & wondered father and now interpreta- Mr. Looney does in appendix-that part of every book tion of the play. According to where evil spirits are reserved for Mr. Still the play is actually a re ligious drama rehearsing the psy judgment.

His analysis of the play leads him to chological experiences in the ancient criticisms which may be cummarised mystic Initiation. On this theory many of the apparently casual and as follows:-

(a) The Grat reference to the play meaningless remarks of the dialogue is the mention of its performance at bear a deep significance: The whole the manisge of the Princess Elizabeth structure of the play has to be ex to the Elector Frederick in 1615. A amined from a new point of view. this practically shuts it out from mush, too, has to be known of the Shakespeare's literary life, a forged ancient system of Initiation. referance was made to it to push it back to 1811

(b) The philosophy of the play when compared with others la weak and thin. Even the great parple. -passage,

The party from the shipwreck segregate themselves out into three groups (1) Stephano and Trinculo, (3) The Court Party (3) Ferdinand.

a failure.

Then what are we to think of the

Makes this place Paradise."-- There is much more to be said about "The Tempest" as a mystery play: bow this aspect of it explains nine of an author who writes a the references to Dido, Anas; the play in. 1813, which has basn tead dogs, the glistering apparel," and and re-read, played and replayed aver the advent of certain respers"--but since, but which had to wait till 1921 space forbida us: There is one thing, before there was even a bint as to the. however about which Mr. Still is om-l meaning of the whole perform phatic and which we think might be ance 3 Is it not obvious that the tested by a good, careful critic, The jezior ministers of the Ceras mysteries play has suffered nothing in the cell

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"Where the bse sucks, thoreauak I;" The position of this song in the play says Mr. Colin Still is an "Batris ordinary dramatta solecism. Barely this can be tested; But let u hea Mr. Bill's case at mors length- 'Immediately after the speech I have just dealt with, Frospero sands for his hat and rapier, in order that he may present himself to the Court Party as he was sometime bular.!! And while helping to attire his gaster in these, Ariel sings a song,

The experiences of these three par Les represent (1) failure to achieve "These our actors,

initiation (2) inauguration in the "As I foretold you, were all spirits, Lesser Initiation (3) inauguration in And, "Are melted into air" &e, the Greater Initiation. In order to has not a touch of Shakespeare's fee the truth of this something mast special interest. It is simple coernio be raid of the rites in the ancient pillosophy, and as such it is the mysteries. First of all, it was the most-dreamy relativism that was custom in initiations to present before the initiates spirits in the shape of aver pat into high-sounding words."

(6) Remembering what is said in dogs." In the initiations the midlate "Hamlet" about inexplicable dumb had (a) to encounter real labours and sbows and noise, the reader is now difficulties (this expecially for the

"Now, it cannot be too s'rongly asked to turn to the stage directions chiefs and lenders in the Greater In in "The Tempest and compare itiation), and (b) to be exposed to emphasised that the irruption of thats with the stage directions to the fnuginary and false terrors (this en Arial at this juncture involves a ather plays. In the latter there are|pecially for the Lesest Initiation) In considerable serrifios of dramatic only such directions as "enter" the Lesser Initiation the rhombos refect for which the literalist

can hardly point to many necessity. The Tempest" is to be. judged solely on the heels of its ostensible plot and without reference

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