United States or Georgia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Edwin Booth as Lear," "Edwin Booth as Hamlet," and so on, recording with minutest fidelity every gesture, every accent, till four of these impersonations were preserved on the page as if in amber. I re-read my Shakespeare in the light of Booth's eyes, in the sound of his magic voice, and when the season ended, the city grew dark, doubly dark for me.
But, though for these reasons I do not suggest that the details I have given are of biographical importance, I feel absolutely certain on two essential points: Browning unquestionably compared the scene he witnessed to Lear and compared it in the most striking and poignant way. The words put into the mouth of Miss Landor are not any invention or addition of mine.
It has been considered as one of the triumphs of Garrick's tragic power, that once, when he was playing Lear, his crown of straw came off, and nobody laughed or took the least notice, so much had he identified himself with the character.
Shakspere's humour and sublimity, his fitful transitions from mood to mood, his wild bursts of laughter, his passion of tears, Hamlet or Hamlet's gravedigger, Lear or Lear's fool, would have startled the readers of the "Spectator" as they would startle the group in a modern drawing-room. But if deeper and grander themes were denied him the essayist had still a world of his own.
With your permission, as the executor of William Zane, I will conduct such part of the inquiry here as my duty toward the deceased, and my knowledge of the evidence, notwithstanding my frontier notions of law, suggest to me." "You prosecute?" asked the magistrate, and added, "Yes, yes! I will!" Calvin Van de Lear got up and bowed to the magistrate.
'When tyrants' crests, and tombs of brass are spent. That is the one fact, the indestructible fact, which this book is to demonstrate. 'Thou'dst shun a bear; But if thy way lay towards the raging sea, Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. 'I think the king is but a man, as I am. King Henry. 'They told me I was everything. Lear.
This messenger arrived at the same time with Caius, and Caius and he met: and who should it be but Caius' old enemy the steward, whom he had formerly tript up by the heels for his saucy behaviour to Lear.
Jim lit out, and was a-coming for me with both arms spread, he was so full of joy; but when I glimpsed him in the lightning my heart shot up in my mouth and I went overboard backwards; for I forgot he was old King Lear and a drownded A-rab all in one, and it most scared the livers and lights out of me.
Cordeilla succeeded him and reigned five years; but the sons of her sisters, after that, rebelled against her, and she lost both her crown and life. Shakspeare has chosen this story as the subject of his tragedy of "King Lear," varying its details in some respects.
It was a long walk; thick clouds made the atmosphere dark, though it was as yet only early afternoon; and the wind howled dismally over the hills of the heath not improbably the same heath which had witnessed the agony of the Wessex King Ina, presented to after-ages as Lear. Gertrude Lodge talked most, Rhoda replying with monosyllabic preoccupation.
Word Of The Day