"I dreamt last night that Shakespeare’s Ghost Sat for a civil service post. The English paper for that year Had several questions on King Lear, Which Shakespeare answered very badly Because he hadn’t read his Bradley."
— A. C. Bradley

January 1, 1970

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Guy Boas, "Lays of Learning", in Punch (17 February 1926); cited in Michael Taylor, Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford UP, 2001) ch. 2, p. 46