Word: mounet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland spoke last evening in Sever 11 before one of the large audiences that invariably greet this delightful lecturer. The talk was on Edwin Booth, M. Mounet-Sully, Henry Irving, and other eminent players in the character of Hamlet...
...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?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect by M. Mounet Sully is the fluttering exit after the "Words, words, words," speech to Polonius...
...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...
...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 that the mind of his hearer is divided between natural bewilderment, and admiration for the varied beauty of this actor's delivery of his own language...
Lecture. Edwin Booth, M. Mounet-Sully, Mr. Irving, and other eminent players, in the character of "Hamlet." Mr. Copeland. Sever...