Appraisements And Asperities As to Some Contemporary Writers
Appraisements And Asperities As to Some Contemporary Writers
Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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And in the end he is drawn out of the jungle, a pace or two from where he entered it, shot to death with the silver bullets 148 "THE EMPEROR JONES" for the incantations attending the casting of which the Voodoo tom-toms had beaten all night. "Emperor Jones" is original as it is force- ful. The atmosphere of the moonlit forest jungle, pulsating with the throb of the tom-tom, rising and falling with the fears and hallucin- ations of Jones, reaching a trumpet crash and then silence with his death;... the sure, persistent touch in the portrayal of that strange mixture of confidence and cowardice so peculiarly true to the type represented; the mastery of the dialect of Jones these are fine things finely done. THE STAGE FROM BETTERTON TO IRVING IN PROFESSOR ODELL'S "Shakespeare From Betterton to Irving" we have an ex- ceedingly interesting and valuable book, all the more so because the author has allowed his ma- terial, which is abundant and well ordered, to tell his story. And that story concerns the for- tunes of the Shakespearean plays on the stage from the reopening of the theatres on the return of King Charles to a time within our own con- temporary recollection, including not only the stage history of the plays, but the manner of their presentation and the vicissitudes of the text at the hands of managers, actors, amenders, theorists and moralists.
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