Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...infinite as space and time? and in what, I pray, are those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would Cromwell or Lincoln? Does Caesar, does Alaric, hold existence by any other or stronger tenure than the Christian of Bunyan or the Don Quixote of Cervantes or the Antigone of Sophocles? Is not the history which...
There is hardly any individuality which is not worth the closest study. Every character has its own atmosphere, and as an actor divests himself of one personality and invests himself with the spirit of another, a sort of intellectual transmigration goes on. For Hamlet, Richard, Lear, or Iago, the true actor will not only change comparatively his voice and manner, but even his pronunciation. As Goethe says: "The really high and difficult part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given...
...lecture last evening on "Edwin Booth as an Actor," Mr. Copeland gave an interesting criticism of Booth's representation of some of his best characters. Mr. Copeland entered into the details of Booth's productions of Hamlet, Iago, Bertuccio, Richard III, King Lear, Shylock, and Richelieu, much more fully than it is possible to do here. He had himself seen Booth act in all the characters of which he spoke, and his criticism was therefore doubly valuable...
...would hardly be possible to say of any one of Booth's characters that it was his best, but it is safe to class under this head Iago, Hamlet and King Lear from Shakespeare, and Richelieu and Bertuccio from the other plays in which he acted. In each of these parts he showed his talent to the best advantage; and the fact that he could be so wonderfully successful in his representation of such widely different characters is perhaps the best testimony to the perfection to which he carried...
...lecture will concern itself especially with the characters of Bertuccio, Iago, Hamlet, King Lear, Richard III, and Shylock, and will include reading from the plays in which several of these characters appear...