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Our Recent Actors (Volume 2); Being Recollections Critical, And, in Many Instances, Personal, of Late Distinguished Performers of Both Sexes. With Some Incidental Notices of Living Actors
Westland Marston
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-02-05.
ISBN 9781150691317
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... Tresham in Browning's "Blot on the Scutcheon"--His management of Sadler's Wells--His Macbeth--His Lear--His Hamlet--His Timon, Coriolanus, Mark Antony, Brutus, and Henry the Fourth--His Richelieu, Werner, Bertuceio in "The Fool's Revenge, " and Mordaunt in "The Patrician's Daughter "--His occasional triumphs in tragedies where terror and passion predominate--His chief serious successes in characters of pathos and tenderness or morbid bitterness--His crowning excellence, however, in comedy, often eccentric comedy--His Sir Pertinax MacSycophant, Malvolio, Sir Peter Teazle, Falstaff, Bottom, Justice Shallow--Remark on Falstaff--Phelps as manager of Sadler's Wells, and his services to the drama--General apathy as to things dramatic when he entered upon this management--Members of his company--Sadler's Wells at length attracts lovers of the drama from all parts of town--Enthusiasm there evinced for legitimacy, and for Phelps as its representative--Instances of this--Mr. Phelps in private--Author reads a play to him--His willingness to produce it--An actor's love of pre-eminence--Macready--Phelps and writer differ as to terms--The play eventually produced at the Olympic--Miss Helen Faucit--A second negotiation with Phelps for a play, with the same result--He produces nearly all Shakspere's plays--Takes leave of Sadler's Wells after more than eighteen years of management--Remarkable revival there of "Antony and Cleopatra"--Miss Glyn--Her introduction to Phelps some time before--List of original plays produced by him--His various revivals--His career after leaving Sadler's Wells--He plants the Shakspere oak on Primrose Hill--No due public recognition of his claims--Summary of his merits as an actor--His personal appearance, voice, mode of delivery, etc.--His priva
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