Sixty Years of the Theater An Old Critics Memories
Sixty Years of the Theater An Old Critics Memories
John Ranken Towse
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The interpretation of passions in their more heroic or exalted forms was a task beyond his strength. Over the ordi- nary emotions he had more than a sufficient con- 239 SIXTY YEARS OF THE THEATER trol, but he was primarily an intellectual rather than emotional actor. He could charm by his delicacy, dazzle by his brilliancy, and thrill by his intensity, but he could not overwhelm. He could be finely dignified and tender, as in Charles I; regal, subtle, and pathetic, as in Lear, but not grand or ...awful; he could be beautifully paternal, as in "The Vicar of Wakefield, " but he could not play the romantic lover. His Komeo was a dismal failure. It was in intellectual and eccen- tric characters, especially those in which there was a vein of sardonic humor or a taint of evil, that he was most successful, such as Mathias, Louis XI, lago, Malvolio, Eichelieu, Shylock, or Benedick. It was as Mathias in "The Bells/* the part in which he first won celebrity, that he made his debut in this country, and his performance ex- cited great enthusiasm and warm controversy.
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