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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: Shakespeare's heart, and was counting each separate throb and pulse
of passion. I thought of the wonderful boy-actor, and saw his face
in every line.
Two sonnets, I remember, struck me particularly: they were the
53rd and the 67th. In the first of these, Shakespeare,
complimenting Willie Hughes on the versatility of his acting, on
his wide range of parts, a range extending from Rosalind to Juliet,
and from Beatrice to Ophelia, says to him -
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
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