Word: scene
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...business of the part was almost uniformly good. Mr. Tree's thrusts with his sword at the empty throne after the play scene, his returning to stroke Ophelia's hair after his great scene with her, and his coming back to strew flowers upon Ophelia's grave, though not such bad touches in themselves, are characteristic of the whole part, 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...
...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?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect...
Edwin Booth was content, to a great extent, with the traditional business of the part, but he often varied the arrangement of the portraits in the closet scene. Sometimes he had both portraits on the wall, and sometimes he had one portrait on the wall, and a 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...
...direct in the substance of his thought, and in the expression of it. With Shakespeare it is different. His characters have lost the simplicity of the older race. He is neither plain and direct in thought, nor in expression. Each of these poets, however, showed to us the scene of life without the interference of their own personalities. They showed us nature as reflected in a mirror. Dante is both a poet and a moralist. He is not content to give men a reflected view of life alone, but he uses his mirror as a medium through which to lead...
...STRIKING novel, "The Story of Christine Rochefort," by Helen Choate Prince has just appeared. Anarchism is the leading motive in it and the scene is Blois, in France. The story indicates finely the triviality of French provincial life. Through the characters it sets forth the claims and evils of Anarchism with a leaning towards conservatism. It is an interesting story and in view of the restlessness prevading the industrial world may be read to advantage by every...