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Excerpt from King Shakespeare: A Masque of Praise for the Shakespeare Tercentenary, Written for the Drama League of Boston
For t/ze many readers and teackers of Skakespeare, wketker tkey be in sckools, colleges, or clubs, desiring some form of appropriate exercise wlzerewitk to commemorate t/ze tercenten n ial of M eir be loved aut/zor's deatk, is issued t/zis booklet. Tke little Masque if suck it may be termed, since it embodiet/z neit/ier sweet music nor graceful dance, yet waxetk strong in compliment, tbc essence of tbc Masque was devised for tke Drama League of Boston, and first presented at tbc Skakespeare Revels of tbc T wentiet/i Century Club in fit at city. Tke passages contained kerein comprise t/z ose fair and konest terms and words indited by tke persons represented lienee it is believed t/zat in wkat place soever tlie ceremony provetlz not convenient for setting fortk upon a stage, it may prove of use and interest for reading in classrooms wli erein are studied t/ze works of tke master.
Ike Masque is not unlike a victim of felt Procrustes' bed, inasmuck as bot/i are adaptable to tke lengtk and needs of t/ze user. If t/ze ceremony as printed be too long, it may be skortened by tke careful omission of some wko speak or appear; if too s/zort, it may be lengtkened, after exercise of skillful judgment, by tke addition of ot/zer writers and actors of note and wortk, of wkick t/zere be many, as Mr. Pope, j'dr. Sloknson, Mr. Pepys, Mr. And Mrs. Browning, Mr. Boot/z and Mr. Irving, wko kave konored t/ze memory of our great dramatist by tkeir seemly words of commen dation. Only see to it, kowsoever you modify t/ze form, you ebange not tke spirit.
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