Chapter II -- Time and Place

To get at the heart of Shakes-
peare's plays, and to secure
for ourselves the material and the
development of culture which are
contained in them, is not the work
of a day or of a year; it is the work
and the joy of a lifetime. There is
no royal road to the harmonious un-
folding of the human spirit; there
is a choice of methods, but there are
no "short cuts." No man can seize
the fruits of culture prematurely;
they are not to be had by pulling
down the boughs of the tree of
knowledge, so that he who runs

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