Private Enthusiasms

Abstract

As an undergraduate I thought that I knew something about Shakespeare, and no doubt I saw myself a partner in that licensed company of scholars and schoolmasters who had acquired the monopoly to purvey him retail to the nation. My education took a new turn, however, when I met a manual worker who could quote copiously from all the plays, including those I had never read. While I was poring over footnotes, he had taken Shakespeare into the fields with him during long spells of unemployment, until now he knew whole plays almost by heart.

Citation

FREEMAN, C.B. (1953), "Private Enthusiasms", Library Review, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 212-213. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012205