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She shrank away to her dressing-room, and waited for him vainly till she knew he was on the stage, where she next met him in the great prison-scene. In this scene, some bitterness of feeling the first sharp pangs of jealousy gave, unconsciously to herself, a terrible vitality and reality to her acting. She filled the stage with the electrical atmosphere of her genius.
The prison-scene was powerfully acted; and the madness of "Margaret" when stretched on her bed of straw, resisting the vain efforts of her lover to rescue her, had a fearful reality. The character of "Margaret" is a fine conception, and Goethe has wrought it out beautifully.
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