WHY THE SHAKESPEARE HOAX IS SO IMPORTANT

Foul Deeds Will Rise

The infant Shakespeare attended by Nature and the Passions, 1791. George Romney

• The action of the theatre… was carefully watched by the ancients…. and, indeed, many wise men and great philosophers have thought it to the mind as the bow to the fiddle: and certain it is that the minds of men in company are more open to affections and impressions than when…