| — | Critic. 46: 192. F. ‘05. 310w. |
“Among the most ingenious and successful experiments upon this baffling theme [attempt to portray Shakespeare as he lived and moved among his fellows] must surely be reckoned the little two-act drama of Dr. Garnett.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 880w. |
“While Dr. Garnett’s play is equally open to the charge of being a subject dressed in poetry, rather than poetry incarnate in a fit subject, it is a remarkably readable and pleasant little book.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 380w. |
“Dr. Garnett’s respect for the great Elizabethan is not to be doubted, but his drama lends to it no emphasis. It contains agreeable lines, but it is not interesting in development, nor is there any reality in the general effect. Moreover, the figure of Shakespeare is trivial and his speech frequently is elaborate and dull. In no respect is he realized with the distinction and art demanded by a subject so far from the ordinary.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 83. F. 11, ‘05. 480w. |
“It is all work at a high level, and the way in which the characters are made to speak in lines which are echoes of the later Shakespeare is extremely skilful. There is a humour, too, in many of the scenes, and much accomplished verse. But it is rather a chapter of Mr. Sidney Lee’s Life turned into dialogue than a substantive drama.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 60w. |
Garrison, William Lloyd. Words of Garrison. [**]$1.25. Houghton.