How the computer listens for Shakespeare's "voiceprint"

When JOHN MASEFIELD,who has been poet laureate of England since 1930, was a young man learning his craft in London, there were few Elizabethan rerivals; and it was not until he had seen Charles Ashbee’s production of The New Inn by Ben Jonson that the glory of England’s most creative age burst upon him. “I determined,” he wrote, ”to try to learn rather more of the theater, that I might the better understand the miracle of Shakespeare, and the still unsolved uncomprehended miracle of the theater of his time.”In the essay which follows. Mr. Masefield calls for a national undertaking which would make the Elizabethans as accessible as they ought to be.

R. P. Lister is a free-lance writer tiring in London. He is widely known for his light verse. For another scholarly dissertation on the transcendental will, readers are referred to page 62.