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'illir.i Poel's collection of e:,says, .Shakespeare in the Thc
appeared in 1913* The productions which served rs illustrations
to his r 'unent ranged Tro i Irving's Hernia!; (an article first
printed in The Era in 1881) to the Kin/-; Lo.-.r of Beerbolra Tree
(1909). Poel dismissed, vithout qualification, the method
of producing Shakespeare to which ,.:.W..Goc)y/in and Lev/is i. *..-•-
field had contributed, and the renunciation is still accepted:
Sivkcc^eare wrote ith consummate art to show
the tide of human afYairr, its flow and ebb,
and his constructive plan is oarticul; rly
unsmited to tuo act-dron. Upon one of Jhako: -
poare's plays the curtain falls like the knife
of a Tuillotine, and the ciYeet ic similar to
ending a piece of rau;:ic abruptly at its highest
note, singly for the sake of creating some ot Tiling
impression..,
The productions of the eight een-eighties which h;»ve been
discussed in this thesis offer convincing evidence of the
justice of Poel's contention - it n i .-lit be argued thot their
only interest lies in their hr