Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wednesday afternoon, April 24, at 4.30 P. M., Mr. C. T. Copeland will read in Sever 11, some selections from Hamlet. There have been few opportunities for those outside the university to hear Mr. Copeland, and it is felt that all who have been entertained and instructed by Mr. Copeland's series of lectures and readings would gladly share the pleasure with their friends. This announcement is therefore made before vacation in order that those who wish to invite their friends to Harvard on some day of special interest may make arrangements accordingly. This will be the last...
...Copeland spoke last evening in Sever 11 on several famous actors of the day. He first gave a short criticism of Hamlet as taken by Mr. Beerbohm Tree, a summary of which criticism is briefly this...
...picture of Hamlet goes, Mr. Tree deserves much praise. He is graceful and well-knit, and he suggests extremely well a melancholy, northern prince. But his presentation of Hamlet is to a very great degree confined to the trappings and outward show...
...which is light and melodramatic. The lines of the part are spoken with sensibility and taste, and the time of the verse is good. But on account of the limited range of his voice, Mr. Tree is unable to bring out the various music of Shakespeare's verse. His Hamlet was melodramatic, theatric, and moved brilliantly along over the surface of the poet's intention. Often, indeed, Mr. Tree dipped below the surface, but never sounded the depths. His Hamlet appealed to the eye, the ear, the nerves, sometimes to the heart; but seldom convincingly to the understanding, or deeply...
...Tree has announced as the subject of his talk on Friday afternoon, "Some Aspects of the Stage." He has also invited the officers of the Harvard Press Association and the English Department of the Faculty, to be present at his performance of Hamlet on Thursday evening. Thirty seats and a box have been reserved for this purpose...