The Tragedian An Essay On the Histrionic Genius of Junius Brutus Booth
The Tragedian An Essay On the Histrionic Genius of Junius Brutus Booth
Thomas Ridgeway Gould
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We seem now to hear his voice ring- ing, out of view, the phrase " I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. " Only when imploring her to go to a nunnery did he pause in action ; then, approaching her tenderly, he threw into those oft-repeated words " to a nunnery, go, " the whole force of his fervent affection. Mr. Macready played Hamlet in Boston, and Cambridge crowded the boxes yes, and applauded too, as that sensible but unim- aginative actor gave his studied version of Hamlet's idle...ness. Hamlet (to Horatio). " They are coming to the play ; I must be idle : (Jet you a place. " Macready seemed unaccountably to have HAMLET. 63 changed natures with Osric the " waterfly ; " for he danced before the foot-lights, flirting a white handkerchief above his head ! This was that " famed performer" to whom Em- erson refers, when he says : " All I then heard, and all I now remember, of the tra- gedian, was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply, Hamlet's question to the ghost ' What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?
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