Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...list of spring books soon to be brought out by Elkin Mathews, the well known London publisher, appears "The Elizabethan Hamlet: a study of the sources of Shakespeare's environment, to show that the mad scenes had a comic aspect now ignored," by John Corbin, Harvard...
...since then has been studying there certain archaic features of the Elizabethan drama in preparation for the publication of his book, which will have a prefatory note by F. York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. As its title shows, the book is a study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama for Elizabethan audiences. They, in their time, saw jest in what would seem...
...audience used to inspire Booth, and put new warmth into his acting. He was by nature of the classic school, and he fell naturally into the poses, which caused many people to think of him as cold and statue like. In Mr. Booth's interpretation of the part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius, he turns to the Queen demanding "Is it the King...
...miniature round his own neck. The one striking bit of new business added by Mr. Booth was his uniform practice already mentioned of holding the cross shaped hilt of his sword before him as he followed the apparation. Mr. Irving has added, among several salient details, the action of Hamlet in rushing up to the throne after the flight of the king and queen, when the play within a play is done. M. Mounet-Sully will probably be best remembered as regards illustrative detail, for his management of the entire play scene...
...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 the character of Hamlet with many subtle interpretations. As for M. Mounet-Tully, Hamlet is so strange to our ears on any tongue not English...