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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LEIGH HUNT'S SYNOPSES- Those articles no included in this Volume are marked with an asterisk.'] Bannister, Mr., the first low comedian on the stage: engages your attention by seeming to care nothing about you: heartiness, his most prominent expression: his representation of ludicrous distress: his Acres: his versatility: his Colonel Feignwell: his Young Philpot: always natural except in the lively gentleman: his Mercutio: mingles the heart with his broadest humour: his humorous pathetic: his Job Thornberry: compared with Mr. Fawcett's: his Walter in the Children of the Wood: his Trappanti compared with Mr. Fawcett's: his Dr. Pangloss compared with Mr. Fawcett's. 'elanchaud, Mr., his unassuming nature: his Marquis de Grand- chateau: his perpetual catch of the right arm. Cooke, Mr., his genius confined to various hypocrisy: his failure in Jaques, Macbeth, and Hamlet: not a great tragedian: his Richard the Third: question whether his hypocrisy ought to betray itself to the audience except in soliloquy: greater in comedy than tragedy: his Stukely and lago: his Sir Archy Mac Sarcasm: his Scotch dialect duly appreciated: his defects of person contribute to the effect of his best characters. Dowton, Mr., fails in low comedy, with the exception of King Arthur: catches feelings rather than habits: his lamentable failure in Dr. Pangloss: his superiority in anger subdued by the patience or the pleasantry of its object: his Capt. Cape and Sir Anthony Absolute: excels in the mixed emotions of anger and of tenderness: his Old Dornton and Abednego: his Dornton compared with Mr. Munden's: Mr. Cumberland's encomium on him. Duncan, Miss, placed under the head of Comedy for the same reasons as Mrs. Jordan: her feeling less, and her declamation better, than Mr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217706308 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217706304 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 180 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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