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Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore in “ Duel in the Sun.” “ Think, token toe talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs V the receiving earth. For ’tis your thoughts that now must deck our Kings, Carry them here and there, jumping o'er times. Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour glass.” Thus we have Shakespeare crying out despairingly for a vast stage on which real horses and two armies might enact the battle of Agin- court. This was probably about 1586. (Shakespeare was baptised on April 26th, 1564 and died April 23rd, 1616.) Even the vision of Shakespeare, genius though he was, could hardly have foreseen the screen as the means of getting within the compass of a stage real horses and Kings with armies, but he did see the necessity for some such invention, for the first words spoken by Chorus are : “ Oh for a Muse of fire that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene.” Most probably he had in mind a vast outdoor pageant in which the battle of Agincourt could be fought, but here again he would have been beaten, for the noble words of his play could not have been heard from such a vast arena, and the pageant would have had to be a play without words. In 1945 William Shakespeare’s despairing cry for a stage on which to show his battle was answered by the screen version of his play. This was produced and directed by Laurence Olivier, who also played the role of Henry V of England. Thus there is a link between Shakespeare’s passionate cry for space in which to stage his play and the invention that answered his appeal— a link that bridged an interval of over three hundred years. In so many of his plays Shakespeare visualised action on a big scale but had no stage big enough to act it. But this very limitation proves the quality of his genius. He brought pictures of a scene into the minds of his audience by the power of his words. He had not even the scenery of the present-day stage to help him, for all his plays were acted before a single backcloth. He made moving pictures not by photo- graphy but by words, and no other . /