With the Imminenee of the Corona tion ceremonies overshadowing the lustre of the occasion, Englishmen throughout the world oh Apr. 23 celebrated St. George's Day, although Vike the Shanghai branch of the Society there may have been a willing and joyful surrender of privileges to the greater event which occurs on May 12. Th such circumstances, It is likely to be forgotten that one of thi greatest Englishmen of them all horn and died on the same date. He was. William Shakespeare, a native of Stratford-on-Avon, whose poetic Tame is universal and underlying and to whom history, with Ite strange Iapses and {raginentary references, hag paid the dubious honour of ming him wherever the English wnguage Is spoken but providing ens enragement for generations of critics attempt to prove that anybody hut honest Will, the playwright, wrote the Even the of his cived strange handling for the versions in modern dress and character. in contradistinction to the Etizabethoan theatre technique in which, at feast, It is admitted they were originally written and produced, all, tend to Undermine the genuineness of the claim and make him more of a tradition than a reality. St. George, the Knight of doubtful genealogical creation, cannot be blamed for sealing the show" on such an ans niversary and obliterating the fame the poot and dramatist but history should not be permitted to weaken he homage merely through the clash of dates,
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