Shakespeare And the Modern Stage, With Other Essays
Shakespeare And the Modern Stage, With Other Essays
Lee Sidney Sir
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Lord John RuaaeO, the leader ol the Liberal party in the House of Gommons, sagely retorted: ''The honourable member talks of the cant of patriotism; but there is something worse than the cant of patriotism, and that is the recant of patriotism/* ^ Mr Gladstone declared Lord John's repartee to be the best that he ever heard. It may be profitable to consider how patriotism, which is singularly liable to distortion and per- version, presented itself to the mind of Shakespeare, the clearest-headed ...student of human thought and sentiment. n In Shakespeare's universal survey of human nature it was impossible that he should leave patriotism and the patriotic instinct out of account. It was inevitable that prevalent phases of both Hhould frequently occupy his attention. In his r61e of dramatist he naturally dealt with the topic in- cidentally or disconnectedly rather than in the way * Thr pun on " cant " and " recant " was not original, though Ix)rd Jolin's application of it was. Its inventor seems to have been Lady Townshend, the brilliant mother of Charles Towns- hend, the elder Pitt's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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