Word: dubosc
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Dates: during 1895-1895
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...Booth did. He spoke in verse as if it were his native tongue, and his voice vibrated not only on the ear but on the soul. He was the last idealist in tragedy. Mr. Irving poses as an idealist, but no one can see him in "Louis XI," or "Dubosc," without thinking what a very realistic idealist he must be. Mr. Irving's speaking of the text in Hamlet, as wherever this actor is called upon to utter blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily prosy, but Mr. Irving is the most intellectual of players, and has illuminated...
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