Annals of the English Stage Or Their Majesties Servants volume 3
Annals of the English Stage Or Their Majesties Servants volume 3
Doran, Dr. (John), 1807-1878
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He also acted Luke, in "Riches" ("City Madame"), to the Lacy of Wallack, and the Lady Traffic of Mrs. Edwin. Of these, he was always inclined to think Hamlet his best character. He had, perhaps, studied it more deeply than the others, and Mrs. Garrick took such especial interest in his representation of it, that on comparing it with her husband's she saw only one great defect, in the closet scene. Garrick was severer with the Queen of Denmark than Kean, and Mrs. Garrick persuaded him, though un...con- vinced by her, to throw more sternness into this celebrated scene. The good old lady merited some, yet not such concession ; but then she invited Kean to Adelphi Terrace, and sent him fruit from Hamp- ton, and made him a present of Garrick's stage jewels. The young man was in a fair way of being spoiled, as Pope said of Garrick, when thinking of the laborious, but splendid time of his friend and favourite, Betterton. Tenderness to Ophelia, affection for his mother, 328 THEIR MAJESTIES' SERVANTS reverential awe of his father, and a fixed resolution to fulfil the mission confided to him by that father, were the distinct "motives, " so to speak, of his Hamlet.
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