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Updated: May 9, 2025
According to what is, even down to this present day, very generally conjectured, Edmund Kean, one of the greatest tragedians who ever trod the stage, is popularly imagined to have always played simply, as might be said, hap-hazard, trusting himself to the spur of the moment for throwing himself into a part passionately; the fact being exactly the reverse in his regard, according to the earliest and most accurate of his biographers.
In "Hamlet" Henry Irving did not go to the audience. He made them come to him. Slowly but surely attention gave place to admiration, admiration to enthusiasm, enthusiasm to triumphant acclaim. I have seen many Hamlets Fechter, Charles Kean, Rossi, Frederick Haas, Forbes-Robertson, and my own son, Gordon Craig, among them, but they were not in the same hemisphere!
He has recently written me that his drawings were lost in a canoe in which he attempted to cross James River on his journey from Appomattox. Otherwise some of them would have appeared in this book. Otho Kean, of Goochland County, Virginia. John E. McCauley, of Rockbridge, sergeant of the battery. William S. McClintic, now a prominent citizen of Missouri.
Macklin, Kean, Cooke, and the elder Booth, each must have been terrific at that point. Henry Irving's method was that of the intense passion that can hardly speak the passion that Kean is said to have used so grandly in giving the curse of Junius Brutus upon Tarquin. But, there was just as much of Shylock's nature in Henry Irving's performance as in any performance that is recorded.
Except for the few if any still survive who can remember the Othello of Kean, living recollection affords no opportunity for a judgment founded on comparison.
This Kean rendered admirably, and in this my father entirely fails, but it is an important element of the character. My father is hard upon Kean's defects because they are especially antagonistic to his artistic taste and tendency, but I think, too, there is a slight infusion of the vexation of unappreciated labor in my father's criticism of Kean.
Understanding this fact, it will not surprise you to learn that those most famous in the histrionic art exercise their talents to listening thousands in the spirit world. Garrick, Kemble, Kean, Booth, Cooke, also Rachel, Mrs. Siddons, and a host of illustrious actors of different nations, are now "treading the boards" of spiritual theatres.
We may discover on close acquaintance that one is more likable than we first supposed; and if that is impossible, then we learn to keep our dislikes to ourselves." The dining-hall was rapidly filling. Landis Stoner and Min Kean came in among the last, the former taking her place at Miss Cresswell's table, sitting beside Elizabeth.
Erratic, fitful though the genius of Edmund Kean unquestionably was rendering him peerless as Othello, incomparable as Overreach we are told in Mr. * Barry Cornwall's Life of Edmund Kean, Vol. II. p. 85
They were soon face to face with the horses, making their way at a slow walk down the road, driven by the woman whose face Waldo had had a confused glimpse of in the heat of that fateful encounter. "This is my wife, Mrs. Dayton," said the big man; "and you are?" "Waldo Kean." For the first time in his life the boy had taken his hat off as a matter of ceremony.
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