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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: %.W DRAMATIC MISCELLANIES. not perfectly, underftood and practifed, in the days of our author, would be an injury to the feelings of every intelligent reader. How many variations of action and paffion are in the firft fpeech of this fcene, confift- ing only of twenty fix lines, all naturally re- fulting from the agitations of a mind an- xioufly inquiring into the truth of that which it dreads to know I Even the under character, Salifbury, is called upon, by the words of Conftance, to exprefs the different paffions of his mind by variety as well as juftnefs of action; as in the following lines: What doft thou mean by fbaking of thy head ? Why doff thou look fo fadly on my fon ? What means that hand upon that bread of thine ? Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum ? Be thefe fad fighs confirmers of thy words ? Lady Conftance's paffionate effufion of rage, grief, and indignation, from which fcarce a line or thought can be expunged, to his eternal difgrace, Gibber has either entirely fupprelled, or wretchedly fpoiled, by vilq andand degrading interpolations: nay, the whole fcene is fo deformed and mutilated, that little of the creative power of Shakfpeare is to be feen in it. To utter, with the utmoft harmony and propriety, all the fucceeding changes of grief, anger, refentment, rage, defponden- cy, reviving courage, and animated defiance, incidental to Lady Conftance, and to accompany them with correfpondent propriety and vehemence of action, was a happinefs only known to Mrs. Cibber. Mrs. Hallam wanted not fpirit nor pathos in this part; nor would Mrs. Pritchard have fallen fo below herfelf, if Cibber had not mifled her. To fpeak the truth, Mrs. Cibber has had no fucceflbr in this part but Mrs. Yates, who yet, it muft be con- feffed, notwithftanding her grea...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217780599 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217780598 |
| Weight | 0.73 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 222 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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