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There has been a triumph of pure art under austere conditions, such as can hardly be recollected on our stage, unless in the case of Everyman pure art akin to the theatrical, indeed parent of the drama. The word histrionic is derived through the Latin from an Etruscan word which means "to leap" and was originally applied to dancers. Historically, the matter is interesting.
The oldest manuscript of a miracle play in English is The Harrowing of Hell, believed to have been written in 1350. The Morality plays were the outcome of the Mysteries; they were either allegorical or else taken from the Parables, or from the historical events in the Bible. The chief Moralities were Everyman, Lusty Juventus, Good Counsel, and Repentance.
Twice in his life the morbid emperor Tiberius shrank from the eyes of men, once at Rhodes and afterwards at Capreae, a melancholy recluse worn out by hard work. Everyman had to provide his own "health resort" in those days: there was nothing to correspond to the modern hotel.
Everyman, and every boy, too, must do his share to wrest a living from the sea and rocks, and Bobby had no thought but to do his part. If a boy cannot do one thing in Labrador, he can do another. He can cut wood, hunt small game, attend the fish nets, jig cod there are a thousand things that he can do, and make sport of as he does them, too, as Bobby did, until he grows to man's estate.
Even as the English vocabulary is mainly a blend of Anglo-Saxon and Franco-Norman, so the Roumanian language is a blend of Latin and Slavonic words. Many years ago the British and Foreign Bible Society published a Roumanian Bible from which the majority of the Slavonic words had been eliminated. I pointed out in Everyman that this Roumanian translation was not Roumanian at all.
But everyman then, says he, fancied himself of some importance; and the innumerable memoirs which have come down to us from those times, were the greater part of them written by people who took pleasure in recording and magnifying events, in which they flattered themselves they had been considerable actors.
For J. Roberts, 1725. Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Everyman edition, 4. Compare the picture of Gloatitia, for instance, with the following of a lady in La Belle Assemblée, I, 22.
Among nations of hunters and shepherds, therefore, whose food consists chiefly in the flesh of those animals, everyman, by providing himself with food, provides himself with the materials of more clothing than he can wear. If there was no foreign commerce, the greater part of them would be thrown away as things of no value.
Read a typical play, like "Noah's Flood" or "Everyman," and write a brief analysis of it. What were our first plays in the modern sense? What influence did the classics exert on the English drama? What is meant by the dramatic unities? In what important respect did the English differ from the classic drama? Name some of Shakespeare's predecessors in the drama? What types of drama did they develop?
Miss Wynne-Matthison in the part of Everyman acted with remarkable power and subtlety; she had the complete command of her voice, as so few actors or actresses have, and she was able to give vocal expression to every shade of meaning which she had apprehended. In the version of "Faust" given by Irving at the Lyceum, Wills did his best to follow the main lines of Goethe's construction.
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