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Sarrasin remorselessly repeated her test words, and the man repeated them after her. 'That will do, she said contemptuously; 'the man was never born in Whitechapel his East End accent is mere gotten up stage-play. Then she spoke some rapid words to her husband in a patois which Ericson did not understand. The Whitechapel man's eyes flashed fire again.
The complete title will be "The Ring of the Nibelung", "a festival stage-play in three days and one previous evening: previous evening, "The Rhinegold"; first day, "The Valkyrie"; second day, "Young Siegfried"; third day, "Siegfried's Death." What fate this poem, the poem of my life and of all that I am and feel, will have I cannot as yet determine.
Leonard had the eloquence of a poet, Audley Egerton that of a parliamentary debater; but Harley had the rarer gift of eloquence in itself, apart from the matter it conveys or adorns, that gift which Demosthenes meant by his triple requisite of an orator, which has been improperly translated "action," but means in reality "the acting," "the stage-play."
The counsel for the prisoner makes a great point of this. "Why, 'tis the catastrophe of a stage-play nay, of a burlesque; when no more artistic solution of the plot can be invented, the hero escapes, the bell rings, and the curtain falls! For I ask why, when Licinius was there trembling, hesitating, retreating, trying to escape why that lady's body-guard let him go out of their hands?
My own daughter perverted! pinning her faith on a newspaper! speaking, with a perverse expression of interest, of a stage-play and an actor! Even Marmaduke witnessed this lamentable exhibition of backsliding with some appearance of alarm. "It's not her fault, sir," he said, interceding with me. "It's the fault of the newspaper. Don't blame her!"
It is, nevertheless, one of the most certainly successful of its author's writings; as a stage-play it rivets the attention; as a pamphlet it awakens irresistible sympathy; as a specimen of dramatic art, its construction and evolution are almost faultless.
Nor can there be any doubt that Racine's view of what a drama should be has been justified by the subsequent history of the stage. The Elizabethan tradition has died out or rather it has left the theatre, and become absorbed in the modern novel; and it is the drama of crisis such as Racine conceived it which is now the accepted model of what a stage-play should be.
For in truth Denys at his stall was turning the grave, slow movement of politic heads into a wild social license, which for a while made life like a stage-play. He first led those long processions, through which by and by "the little people," the discontented, the despairing, would utter their minds.
"Oh, Nick, such goings on!" called Robin Getley, whose father was a burgess, as Nick Attwood came slowly up the street, saying his sentences for the day over and over to himself in hopeless desperation, having had no time to learn them at home. "Stratford Council has had a quarrel, and there's to be no stage-play after all." "What?" cried Nick, in amazement. "No stage-play? And why not?"
The incident suggested to the somewhat barren pen-men of the day a "morality" adapted from the old pagan books a stage-play in which the God of Wine should return in triumph from the East.
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