SHAKESPEARE’S HUMOUR
in these clays of bigotry and persecution, said the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, speaking at tlie Shakespeare festival at Stratford-on-Avon, he welcomed the chance of paying homage to the poet who, of all/ others, looked with kindly good nature upon the comedy of human life. “ Shakespeare would have smiled with delight at the use of his face as a trade mark of a brewery, and of his head as the attraction for a garage on the Warwick and Leamington road. Shakespeare himself would have laughed at these things, for from start to finish he was never a highbrow. Is not this the secret of his unequalled sense of humour? That strange quality that flickers like a film between laughter and tears? 1 sometimes wonder whether it exists outside the English race. It is as different from wit as. the sun’s kindly ray is from the relentless exposure of a spotlight. Shakespeare is the very embodiment of English humour.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23379, 23 September 1939, Page 17
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161SHAKESPEARE’S HUMOUR Evening Star, Issue 23379, 23 September 1939, Page 17
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