In Re Shakespeare Beeching V Greenwood Rejoinder On Behalf of the Defendant
In Re Shakespeare Beeching V Greenwood Rejoinder On Behalf of the Defendant
G G Granville George Greenwood
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" That last word, " riddle, " is applied, as the most cursory reader will see, not only to the poem in question, but to all Jonson's various utterances with regard to "Shakespeare, " includ- ing the well-known passage in the '* Discoveries, " the words recorded by Drummond, and others — passages which, as every competent critic, ortho- dox or heretic, must recognize, are, in some respects, extremely difficult to reconcile and to explain. And do I say " in regard to the whole poem" that *'by the... Stratfordians it has to be ingeniously, if not ingenuously, explained away"? No, I do not, as the Canon must have very well known, because he has read the words, and these are they : *' ' Small Latin and less Greek ' . . . May be true enough of the 'Stratford rustic, ' but is found to be entirely inappropriate to the author of the Plays and Poems. It has therefore to be ingeniously, if not ingenuously explained away. " It is obvious, therefore, that I was referring to those modern Shakespearean critics, who, like the late Professor Churton Collins, have found irresistible evidence of a cultured and learned Shakespeare in "the works them- selves, " and are therefore under the necessity of explaining the words "small Latin and less BEECHING V.
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