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Synopsis
Excerpt from A Glance Toward Shakespeare
Whatever playwrights may claim or scholars pro pound, the mass of mankind reads for recreation, and it is as an engaging writer of fiction that Shake speare has made his way. The taste for stories is eternal. In the Homeric Age the tales were recited by a bard; in the Middle Age, by a jongleur in a castle yard. In Elizabeth's day they were sung by ballad-mongers, until the primitive stage caught them up, and a new generation of poets turned the tales of the world into dramas. The passion behind all this popular literature, from Homer to Kipling, is a passion for fiction. The form changes from poetry to prose and back again, the subjects vary with the taste of the times; but the inner meaning and inner value of all these forms of literature is the same at all epochs it is recreation through fiction.
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