1 MARCH 1957, Page 28

Had Shakespeare been acquainted with the, clerihew there is no

doubt that it would have crept into many of his plays. For the usual prize of six guineas competitors are invited to provide three continuous clerihews in a conversational form that might have been used by one of the following pairs: Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Shylock and Portia, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth or Hamlet and his father's ghost.

• Entries, .addressed `Spectator Competition No. 368,' 99 Gower Street, London, WC1, by March, 12. Results on March 22.

• CORRECTION.—The closing date for Competi- tion No. 367, announced last week, should read March 5.