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Updated: May 27, 2025
We may believe that the acting was often excellent; especially in respect of intonation and gesture, but little can be said for the play, whether from the point of view of literature or of morals. Much more in demand were theatrical performances of a lower kind. These were farces, interludes, character-pieces, and dumb-shows known as "pantomimes."
He will have his 'transient hieroglyphics, his tableaux vivants, his 'dumb-shows' to aid him here also, because this, too, is for the spectators this, too, is for the audience whose eyes are more learned than their ears. It is a natural hero, one who achieves his greatness, and not one who is merely born great, whom the Poet deals with here.
In these pieces no masks were worn and also no shoes, and the women's parts taken in the other instances by men and boys were actually played by females, whose posture-dances were no credit to their sex. The dumb-shows or "pantomimes" were performances in which expressive and elaborate gestures and movements were left to tell the whole tale.
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