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Updated: May 15, 2025
There was much discussion as to what the play should be called, and as to whether the names "Synorix" and "Sinnatus" would be confused. "I don't think they will," I said, for I thought this was a very small matter for the poet to worry about. "I do!" said Edy in a loud clear voice, "I haven't known one from the other all the time!" "Edy, be good!" I whispered.
Henry, mischievous as usual, was delighted at Edy's independence, but her mother was unutterably ashamed. "Leave her alone," said Henry, "she's all right." Tennyson at first wanted to call the play "The Senator's Wife," then thought of "Sinnatus and Synorix," and finally agreed with us that "The Cup" was the best as it was the simplest title.
Scenically speaking, it was not Greece, but Greece in Sicily, Capri, or some such hilly region. Henry Irving was not able to look like the full-lipped, full-blooded Romans such as we see in long lines in marble at the British Museum, so he conceived his own type of the blend of Roman intellect and sensuality with barbarian cruelty and lust. Tennyson was not pleased with him as Synorix!
"With all our best wishes, "Yours ever sincerely, "I quite agree with you as to H.I.'s Synorix." The music of "The Cup" was not up to the level of the rest.
To be sure, he was a villain of much complexity; and Tennyson thought that his subtle blend of Roman refinement and intellectuality, and barbarian, self-satisfied sensuality, was not "hit off." Synorix is, in fact, half-Greek, half-Celt, with a Roman education, and the "blend" is rather too remote for successful representation.
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