Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...presented us with a third rendering, quite distinct from either of the others. Fechter's imperfect English gives way to the rich Italian of the new comer; but the English was Shakspere's, while the name of the translator of "Amleto" is not preserved. To almost all, it is Hamlet in pantomime; and the labor of mentally connecting Shakspere's words with the action of the player can hardly fail to detract somewhat from the spectator's pleasure. But, pantomime and all, Salvini's Hamlet interests and pleases. Throughout it recalls Booth much more than Fechter, to our mind...
WITHIN a few years we have had the opportunity of seeing the part of Hamlet interpreted by three actors, all of whom have devoted considerable attention to its study and performance. Edwin Booth's rendering had been for many years unequalled and perhaps unapproached, and when we heard of the new actor, whose light hair and broken English had won such triumphs abroad, all were impatient to make the comparison, confident, no doubt, that Booth's glory could not fail to be increased by it. Fechter came well advertised to this country, for his arrival was preceded by a letter...
...this very firmness of purpose that the conception differs from that of Booth, who portrays Hamlet's vacillating character side by side with the impulse and filial love which combats and finally overcomes it. This is "higher" art, and, to us, it is more interesting. The conception is a more difficult one, and it is the skill shown in overcoming the difficulty that gives such pleasure to those...
...SENIOR last Friday afternoon inquired in the Library for "Gertie's Conception of Hamlet." He was unable to find it. In our opinion, the ghost of Hamlet's father knows more about that little matter than any one else. - Yale Record...