Emerson College - Emersonian Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Joseph E. Connor, A.M. Professor of Speech; Director of the Summer Session.

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With respect this hook is dedicated ' ' And even the ivise are merry of tongue: ' — Yeats. He stood before us smiling gently, his hand clasping a half-opened volume bound in soft red leather. The book had a slightly worn, familiar look as if it had been used more often than not, but by someone who loved it well. His eyes, always dancing and warm, instantaneously took on more vigor than usual and seemed to be commanding us to listen to what he was about to say. He began to lecture on the sources and general characteristics of the play, and we became aware once more that he was sharing with us something which to him was very vitally alive — not Shakespeare from the sixteenth century redrawn for classical history, not Shakespeare of the dusty tombs and stuffy bookshelves, but Shakespeare as a man whose scope and thought and understanding had been written for us to grasp. We thought of all the plays which had come to us this way, new and bright and ready to be read — Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Richard 111, Twelfth Night, A W mter ' s Tale — through the vast store of the little red volume bound in soft leather, filled with notes along the margins of the pages. We thought of the man now standing before us, and remembered the day he had taken the platform to interpret Romeo and Juliet, so that we should never forget the beauty and splendor and significance of the lines. He spoke now of Heminges and Condell, and of the first printing of Shake- speare in the Folios. Of Shakespeare he was speaking as of a man he had per- sonally known and loved well, as of a contemporary for whom he had the deep- est respect, yet someone he knew first as a person, then as an artist. His lecture sparkled with the richness of his interest, with the anecdotes and reminiscences which do not belong in text books, and for lack of which texts are sometimes very dull. He liked to talk of Kittridge, that man who had a similar love for Shake- speare. He liked to tell us of Quartos and Folios still in existence, where they are, and how they had been found. He had brought us to a point where we were anxious for the play itself, anxious for another chance to recapture Shakespeare as a whole and moving force, to understand again how well he knew the greatness of the strivings which make man finally a part of humanity where he meets a common destiny with the rest.

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EMERSONIAN STAEE Editor-in-Chiej JoHANNH Black Assistant Editor Jean Garris Photography Editor Advertising Manager Norma Leary Rosemary Davis Literary Editor Robert Guest Assistant Literary Editor Theodore Chandler Art Editor David Wiley Louis Smith Murray Dann Subscription Editor Joan Kessler Norma Bacigalupo Advertising Staff Judith Britton Elinore Ziff Subscription Staff Carolyn Jackson Eriends-of-Enierson Editor Elaine Ducharme Marilyn Kahn Ruth Roblin Business Manager Rosemary Davis Nancy Pasternak ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To the entire Emersonian staff for their cooperation. To President Green for his help and consideration. To Stephen Plimpton for his photography. To the Hancock Press that printed this book. Eight The Emersonian