Word: swoon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...happens to be at Seville. Almaviva fails to obtain the lodging, but manages to give Rosine a note. After he has gone, Bartholo accuses Rosine of having received a note from him, and threatens to use force to procure it. Rosine denies having such a note, and pretends to swoon, not however, before she has placed a note from her cousin in her pocket in place of the one received from Almaviva. Bartholo takes the note, and discovers his blunder. He apologizes to Rosine, and leaves her alone to read the note from her lover...
...with perfect naturalness. Especially in the highly emotional scenes of the third act, where the slightest over acting would have been fatal, he was free from any ranting, and never lost sight of the artistic limitations of the part. By his excellent acting he relieved the artificiality of the swoon scene, which is perhaps the greatest blemish in the play...