Our Recent Actors Being Recollections Critical And in Many Instances Persona
Our Recent Actors Being Recollections Critical And in Many Instances Persona
Westland Marston
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In Farren, the unmistakable air of refinement, the dry, quiet enunciation, which added more force to epigram than the most studied declamation could have given ; in the scenes with Lady Teazle, the sense of provocation, generally tempered by the OUE EECENT ACTOES. 155 courtesy of a well-bred man to a woman, even though his wife ; the uxorious admiration, oddly mingled with annoyance, which her brilliant sallies called forth, — these were felicities of ex- pression which, though suggested by the... dramatist, implied on the actor's part a power of translating mental ideas into the forms of actual life that was scarcely short of invention. Among other subtle- ties of Farren's performance was the excitement which now and then contrasted with his habitual efforts at self-restraint — a display produced neither by Lady Teazle's recklessness nor by her seeming heartlessness, but by the raillery which sometimes made him look absurd. Thus, his anger was far less provoked by her suggestion that it would be obliging in him to make her an early widow, than by her quotation from that " forward, impertinent gipsy, " Cousin Sophy, who had described him as "a stiff, peevish old bachelor.
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