Shakespeare on Scenery by Oscar Wilde — Read

(_Dramatic Review_, March 14, 1885.)

I have often heard people wonder what Shakespeare would say, could he see Mr. Irving's production of his _Much Ado About Nothing_, or Mr. Wilson Barrett's setting of his _Hamlet_. Would he take pleasure in the glory of the scenery and the marvel of the colour? Would he be interested in the Cathedral of Messina, and the battlements of Elsinore? Or would he be indifferent, and say the play, and the play only, is the thing?