“Milton was for us. Burns, Shelley were with us and they watch from their graves. But Shakespeare? Where is there a line to entitle him to a place in the brotherhood?”
So laments the poet Robert Browning as quoted in the page 4 article entitled The Aristocratic Look in the April 1954 edition of the Shakespeare Fellowship News-Letter.
The edition also contains an update on the very sad state of Brooke House, formerly known as King’s Place, a residence of Edward de Vere’s, eleven years after the Newsletter’s page 3 first report of it being damaged during a German air raid.
You can read the entire newsletter here: https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/wp-content/uploads/SFE-1954-04-APR.pdf
