Thomas Betterton, 2. kötetK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1891 - 196 oldal |
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actors Albanius Albion and Albanius alludes allusion Anthony Aston appear audience Barry Beeston Betterton acted Betterton played Betterton's company boxes Bracegirdle Cave Underhill character Charles Cibber Cockpit Colley Colley Cibber comedians comedy curious curtain Davenant's company diarist Dogget Dorset Garden Theatre doubt Downes dramatists Drury Lane Dryden Duke Duke's company epilogue famous Fletcher's Fops Genest give Hamlet Harris Hart honour John Killigrew King King's company Kynaston ladies Lincoln's Inn Fields Lord Love for Love Macbeth Malicorne mentioned Michael Mohun middle gallery Mohun Mountfort never Nokes old actors opened opera Othello Otway patentees Pepys saw Pepys's performance piece players playhouse poet Powell probably produced prologue quoted Restoration theatre revival rivals Royal Salisbury Court Sandford says scene scenery seems seen Shakespeare shillings Siege of Rhodes Sir Henry Herbert Sir William Davenant stage stage-directions success theatrical Thomas Betterton took tragedy Verbruggen
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160. oldal - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
129. oldal - All this ? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
130. oldal - I have hardly a notion, that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton in any of the occasions in which he has appeared on our stage. The wonderful agony which he appeared in, when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in Othello...
53. oldal - ... utterance; all objects were thus drawn nearer to the sense ; every painted scene was stronger, every grand scene and dance more extended ; every rich or fine-coloured habit had a more lively lustre : nor was the minutest motion of a feature (properly changing with the passion or humour it suited) ever lost, as they frequently must be in the obscurity of too great a distance...
151. oldal - But we can't fear, since you're so good to save us That you have only set us up, — to leave us. Thus from the past, we hope for future grace I beg it And some here know I have a begging face. Then pray continue this your kind behaviour, For a clear stage won't do, without your favour.
80. oldal - I come, unknown to any of the rest, To tell you news; I saw the lady drest: The woman plays to-day: mistake me not, No man in gown, or page in petticoat: A DICTIONARY OF ACTORS A woman to my knowledge; yet I can't, If I should die, make affidavit on't.
85. oldal - You have seen a Hamlet perhaps, who, on the first appearance of his father's spirit, has thrown himself into all the straining vociferation requisite to express Rage and Fury, and the house has thundered with applause, though the misguided actor was all the while (as Shakespeare terms it), tearing a passion into rags.
85. oldal - ... best array, rising into real life and charming her beholders. But alas ! since all this is so far out of the reach of description, how shall I...
6. oldal - Scenes (we having oblig'd ourselves to the variety of five changes according to the Ancient Dramatic distinctions made for time) had not been confined to eleven foot in height, and about fifteen in depth, including the places of passage reserv'd for the Musick. This is so narrow an allowance for the fleet of Solyman the Magnificent, his army, the Island of Rhodes, and the varieties attending the Siege of the City...
131. oldal - Betterton act it, observes there could not be a word added; that longer speeches had been unnatural, nay, impossible, in Othello's circumstances. The charming passage in the same tragedy, where he tells the manner of winning the affection of his mistress, was urged with so moving and graceful an energy, that while I walked in the Cloisters, I thought of him with the same concern as if I waited for the remains of a person who had in real life done all that I had seen him represent.