Word: masks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer, "Who is he and whence among men; who were his parents and where is his goodly dwelling?" But I have never learned the answers to these questions. The problem of the man with the iron mask counts as nothing with me; here is a secret twice as strange and impenetrable. Some noble object must be his; why does he linger among us - among us and yet not of us? Is he a Polish exile; or was his home once in Iceland's unhappy isle? What...
...escape. As his eyes travelled over the bones and horns, with which, instead of the customary clubs and stone darts, the walls were covered, he spied in a corner several skins of wild animals, which were hung from the roof. Toward them, accordingly, he retreated, while he stammered, to mask his movement, "I don't know...
...short, the representation will follow the antique tradition where possible; but it is not intended, in any case, to strain a point and run the risk of being ridiculous. Thus, there will be no attempt to make the theatre seem open to the sky, and no masks will be worn. It is well established that the object of the mask was to make the features of the actors seem distinct to those who sat in the furthest part of the immense theatres, and also to help the adjustment of the mouth-piece, which was necessary to give sufficient distinctness...
...meet a glance of sympathy; their look was as that of a bloodthirsty beast gloating over its victim. I shuddered slightly, and turned my head away. Yet I felt strangely calm and composed. I looked at the headsman with a sort of curiosity and interest; he had not his mask on yet, but his face was as impassive and immovable as though that had been covering it. I marked the axe also. As he saw my glance, he, too, looked down upon it, and patted it with some such pride as a father might feel in his fair-haired child...