The Shakespeare Boom?
“An age cannot respond deeply to a poet,” writes ALFRED HARBAGE, “unless it responds to what that poet stands for. He cannot flourish upon aesthetic and intellectual appeal alone.”Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia, now teaching at Harvard, Dr. Harbage is troubled about the failure of our generation and of Americans especially to rediscover Shakespeare. Shakespeare does well among the Zulus, the Russians, the Czechoslovakians, the Uzbeks, but only a handful of Americans sit through a Shakespearean performance with true relish.