Genre:

Drama, Drollery

Subjects:

Mining, Metallurgy, Genius

    To celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of William Shakespeare this 'Elisabethan Masque' features a hymn sung by poets and playwrights from all ages and nations. The hymn praises Shakespeare's brain 'as continent all mines containing, / That breeds all metals without waste or waning, / Red, gold, pale silver, brave brass, iron strong— / The dross of word-play, quip and crank and rhyme— / The rude and heavy matrix of thy time— / The ore wherein thy bedded mental lay, / As diamond in rock, or gold in clay'.