The Life of William Shakspere Ter Centennial Address
The Life of William Shakspere Ter Centennial Address
Willard Gibson Day
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And a certain Thomas Green, of Stratford, had found employment in a low capacity at the Blackfriars The- arte ; and thirther Shakspere went. He was admitted in the lowest capacity. It is believed and very well attested, that at first he held horses at the door of the theater. Happy horses! now certainly immortal- ized ! Shlakspere no doubt loved and petted them ; he stroked their intelligent faces, patted their 'beautiful necks; and they, in turn, sniffed at his curly hair, and nibbled with the...ir sensitive lips at hi's ragged elbow; while the so-called masters of the noble ani- mals applauded to the echo scenes insdde the theater 16 THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. which it proved the mission of the poet either to alter or abolish. Shakspere at length becomes lan actor of small parts, while as a supernumerary he helps to shift the few 'bungling scenes used to frame in the extravagant, ranting, peaeodc-strutting stars ! He became univer- sally useful about the place. And when it became his employment and duty to improve and reform the plays in use, (by Subtractions and additions of his own, he gets a spanking rebuff frofm a talented but dissipated and declining play-wright, one Robert Greene, who warns his friends to beware of Shakspere, as one hav- ing a "tyger's heart in a player's hide.
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