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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY. APRIL

1937.

SHAKESPEARE

Man of Mystery

HAKESPEARE pre- sents what is probably the greatest enigma of personality in literary Avon, history.

the

By MAURICE LEWIS

killer of cattle, af Stratford-on-

William was baptised on April 20, 1564. He was the third of a family of eight four boys and four girls.

There is no evidence of his enter- ing or leaving school, and his life all the authenticated facts of his presents n blank wall to the historian

until his eighteenth year, private life.

Five

lines of type In "Telegraph would suffice to give

The date of his birth and the Then two strange events are re- house in which he was born are corded. alike unknown, and there record of his marriage to

Hathaway.

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Anne

VERY possible channel han been explored for u scrap of the writings of the greatest drain- atlst, who wrote so cuplously.

The records of Stratford and all the neighbouring villages have been sifted; the Record Office and the State popers have been ransacked; but the sum total of all these efforts in five, or maybe six, strangely dit-

signatures, variously spelt. fering

Shakespeare,

A minor,

forced to break his pledge with the

malden of his choice, and War

compelled to link his future with Anne Hathaway, his senior by eight years. The sequel reveals why. There is record of a marriage

no

nonths later, ceremony, but six

Anne Hathaway, now Mrs. Shake- speure, gave birth to a girl, who was christened Susanna. Two years Under the dute November 27, 1502, later twins were born,

Hamnet fund the Bishop of Worcester's register Judith. Thereafter, the curtain of reveals that a Beence was Issued secrecy falls again to hide the poet, authorising the matrimonial union of for from the baptism of the twins William Shakespeare and "Annam until 1502-seven years later-there Whiteley," of Temple Grafton,

is no contemporary reference to him.

Martin Droeshout's Portrait of Shakespeare

1930.

A puzzling development swiftly

testimony The slender

that we followed,

wed, which has baffled Shake- have suggests that Shakespeare's spearian commentatora to this day,

married Was unhappy.

He was Within twenty-four hours of the forced into a distasteful union with

than himself. older granting of the marriage licence, a woman much another

entry was made In the By his will every known item that nellaame register concerning the he possessed is disposed of, but with

marriage of proposed

William the exception of his "second-best.

the Record Office as late as May Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, bed," which was added as an after- fair man named "Will." younger than of Shottery.

thought to the first draft, nothing is himself and of high social standing,

Mr. Frank Marcham was engaged left to his wife and there is no other who dominated his life. In these he

promises that through his verse bis in search through the calendar of mention of her name.

friend shall gain immortality, Chancery cases when by sheer chance

across the signatures The remainder, with the exception he came

Hall and Thomas Nash, of the last two, are written to the Susanna

Now Susanna lady.

WAY Shakespeare's whole of his dramatic dark.

The carlier sonnets to his mistress eldest daughter, who married John work was produced within two decades, between the

playful note, but the latter Hall, a strike a ages of

Thomas Nash was twenty-seven and forty-seven, at ones are a cry of tortured passion.

The woman "colour'd ill" who had her son-in-law,

the first husband of the rale of two plays a year, cach

and his her only daughter, Elizabeth, supreme achievement of the cast, her snares over him Playwright's art. And this period friend is a wanton, and he is fors-

a greater mystery than worn in loving her.

Three of these are appended to This latter entry holds many pecu- his will, two are found on docu- bar features. It was in the form of to the purchase of a deed, signed by Fulk Sandells and ments relating to

house in Blackfriars, and a pos- John Richardson, two farmers from

sixth is on deposition con- nected with a lawsuit,

sible

The only

Jetler

addressed

to

the loan of

Shakespeare that has been discover-

ed is one

£30.

requesting

Two Strange

Events

Two fully authenticated likenesses of Shakespeare are in existence. The first is the coloured half-length statue of him in Holy Trinity Church,

TO-DAY

is

SHAKESPEARE'S DAY ST. GEORGE'S DAY ZEEBRUGGE DAY YPRES DAY

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all the rest.

Yet Shakespeare himself has left a clue that one day may help to solve these baffling problems. The of sonnets supply the key to his per-

miny

he

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enigma be solved?

in

of

Warwician of some reputatlon

The document to which their sign- atures are appended records how balliffs burst open the study of Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on- Avon after his death, and took away boxes and books under a judgment for £77.

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Many men have been put forward

* sonal drama, and the major portion as the original of Mr. W. H., "the at Stratford, crecled a few years

of his dramalle work. For in them unlie begetter" of the sonnets.

ERE is room indeed for after

ter his death; and the other is the

Is buried the secret of his two loves, The most probable person to Ink

astonishment and wonder- copperplate engraving by Martin the neighbouring village of Sholtery, which Droeshout.

and friends of Anne Hathaway's which fanned the fires by whose heat to the sonnets is William Herbert,

the young Earl of Pembroke; and ing conjecture. were wrought his high tragedies.

First, this is the only unquestioned This engraving was used in the father.

There is no question that his dark Shakespeare's dark mistress can then The document makes it clear that

mistress whom First Follo, which was published in

for none is books, verged on hate is a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, possessed any 1823. seven

years after the poet's the bishop was dublous about grant that at times loved with a love be easily identified us Mary Fitton, record of the fact that Shakespeare death.

ing the second licence, for under the

and his Love"; hus been strongly stressed by those The artist Droeshout was only deads Sandells and Richardson were black beauty with her "false-speak- Such was Frank Harris' theory in his mentioned in his will, a point that

big ng tongue, her "proud heart" and play "Shakespeare Afteen years of age when Shake bound by sureties of £40 each-a big her disdain-was the mainspring of and G. B. Shaw utilised the same who maintain that Shakespeare was speare died, and his work was al-un in those days-te shoulder any his later dragnas of passion, Who Idea, in his. Inter most certainly not a direct portrait. legal responsibilities that might arise: was slie? But the bust and engraving are It was feared, apparently, that the staringly at variance,

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WHAT, then, is known with certainly about this stu-

pendous genius?

His father was John Shakespeare, #love-maker and cornchandler, and possibly also a small farmer and

it

union of William Shakespeare and Sonnets To Anne Hathaway might be challenged

and its validity threatened by the

disclosure of a lawful Impediment The "Dark Lady" by reason of pre-contract.","

The sonnels arc stencil-clear A hasty marriage, too, was aimed utobiography. There are 154 of at, "with once asking of the bannes them inked one to another in a re- between them."

velatory sequence of netion.

Of course, the truth is obvious.

The first 126 are addressed to

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A very strange elreumstance which A great deal is known of Mistress Fitton, and from this knowledge she calls for explanation is that Susanna appears as the very embodiment of Hall did not pay this debt of £77. fascinator. She Her father died a wealthy man, and Shakespeare's false

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Il seems Wiis mold of honour

Shakespeare's favourite married to the son of the Eart of Susanna, Worcester, and Queen Elizabeth com- daughter, should have held her a manded special celebrations, attend- father's memory in so little respect ដង the festivities in person. On that that the deliberately refrained from occasion, Mary Fitton was the cen- paying one of his debts, choosing rather to meet It by handing over tre of

of attraction.

strong The

ung Earl of Pembroke was books that must have held charmed with her, and shortly after paternal associations.

incident carries

the she became his mistress.

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feel tired at the end of the day.

The Queen was furious, and at elements of mystery.

It supplies, indeed, an additional first threatened them both with

speculation picturesque

for the imprisonment-The-young-earl Baconians and others who believe a dummy

"utterly renounced all marriage." and was sent to the Fleet Prison figure, hiding some great unknown,

Shakespeare to be but for correction, Mistress Fitton being who was the true author of the

dismissed from the Court.

poems and plays.

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THE aim of employers is to reduce fatigue in all methods of work, not merely out of regard towards night you may be suffering from "Timon of Athens," and "King Lear which has always puzzled the com-

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Ifer subsequent progress would bring a blush to the checks of even the most emancipated of modern ITERE is the reason, they young women. There was always

might argue, why the con- some scandal attached to her name. temporary evidence linking up Such, then, was the character of Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon the dark lady who, together with with the author of the plays is so "Mr. W. H." for eleven long years astonishingly meagre, shook the heart of Shakespeare, and They might maintain, too, that In that progress tore out of his being this incident of the removal of boxes

for those plays of fierce mental conflict, and books accounts 4 strange fact "Othello," "Hamlet," "Macbeth, When you leave your work each

mentators: that while the nors contemporary with Shakespeare have physical fatigue through the

most of them left holograph speci- of your body

addition to employees but because it is the means of reaching a

THE mystery of Shakespeare mens of their work, in muscles. This is a healthy fatigue

in relation to his unknown letters and documents, of Shake- and not dangerous. greater output.

Mental i fatigue, resulting from con- loves, and their significant influence speare's actual writing-although he Girls folding handkerchiefs proved least tired when they folded.

theory. But of his time there are only these few for five minutes and rested one minute; men shifting 921b. weights un brain-work, is a more harmful on his dramatic genius, is elucidated was one of the most copious authors

fatigue as it involves no physical at all points by this were least tired when they rested for three minutes after each activity and accompanying stimula will certain proof ever be furnished disputed signatures.

to give to it.historical substance? The implication might be currled tion of circulation. twelve minutes' work.

Brain-workers should be parti- Perhaps even now there may lie further still, and a pertinent query cularly interested in physical exercise in some obscure corner of English formulated. and athletics in their leisure time.

Was the bailiffs' execution 'put a few love letters, a portrait with Most harmful fatigue of all is an inscription, a legal deed or diary into effect as a demand for the pay- emotional fatigue, due to unsuit-of three centuries ago, which may ment of a genuine debt, they might yet dissipate the impenetrable fog usk, er was this a method adopted, ability to your job.

People of high Intelligence engaged which envelops the personality of our with or without Susanna's cogni- in routine work; energetic, vivacious greatest Englishman.

sance, of withdrawing from the world people doing jobs which require a Some colour is given to this hope a collection of books and writings of steadier temperament; slow brains by a manuscript treasure that was great importance to some hidden in- doing work which should be handled!

unexpectedly brought to light at tercats? by quick brains-all these people are

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1 The man

in the ranks (two words, 6, 7).

7 Nothing startling.

B Part of speech..

11 Waterless.

12. He never lived straightforward-. ly, but always faced the wrong way.

13 This utensil is probably stronger

than it sounds.

10 One can't make bricks without

it.

17. Spols in which one may get

frult 19 Carry out the work with a smart

finish.

21 What 13 sounds.

23 A girl I have in my eye,

24 The whisky bird?

25 What young people nowadays

try to get out of life.

28 The nag and the gal go back to

reach this Scottish river.

20 Yankee live-wire (hyphen, 2,

0).

30 These are the vehicles our speed

merchants started with

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2 A severe trial, maybe, or

simple business transaction,

3 Doubtless the spectacles are to enable one to see the man in it. You may be caught by many a plant here.

6 Clothes for the ineffelent.

Their pupils see all that is to be

7 It's mine, linr; (anag).

9 William's watch suggests he'll

have a lot to do with the brush (hyphen, 4, 7).

10. Chicken...

14 A bang on the head; such a

Fagi

16 The charm of word-building, 18:If you want this confection give

me a ring: first, ___

20 'Sounds 'Ikke a

without oars.

Thames eight-

21 Vegetable backsheesh?

32 Describes, the feelings of many

at its taxinflated price.

20 A convict in festal attire,

27 Last, but not quite least. Yesterday's Solation.

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