Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy With a Proper Introduction
Reflections Upon Theatrical Expression in Tragedy With a Proper Introduction
Roger Pickering
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Why weeps your Coward Swords half out their Shells ? Why do you not all brandifh them like mine ? You fear to die, and yet dare talk of killing. 'Tis not difficult to fee what noble Em- ployment for the Altitudes of Pierre lies in fo narrow a Compafs ; in which the Limbs* [ 37 ] Limbs, we are fpeaking of, have nojmall Share : But this PafTage was chofen, pre- ferably to others, on account of that con- temptuous Addrefs to Renault, mark'd in Capitals. The Italians have a Method of ex- preffing C...ontempt different from ours. By them it is done by waving the right Hand pretty near their own Face, and turning their Head afide from the Object they di- rect it to. Whether, as the Scene is laid in Italy, it would not be Merit in an English Actor to exprefs it in the Ita- lian Manner, is fubmitted to public Judgment ? It may be objected, that, as this is the higheji Act of Contempt one Italian can mew to another, it ought to have been mitigated againft an old Man, as Re- nault was. But it mufl be remember- ed, that Pierre was not only warmed by the prefent Affront to himfelf, but had been alfo apprifed of Renault's villai- nous Attempt upon the Wife of his Friend.
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