. Shakespeare on the stage. ten-ing, though restrained at My blood begins mysafer guides to rule; thrilling and terrible at theclimax of the colloquy with lagOj If thou dostslander her and torture me; piteous in the heart-rending delivery of Othellos Farewell content; andrightly and pathetically sacrificial in the awful scenethat culminates in the killing of Desdemona. His cryof anguish when the wretched man becomes awareof his fatal error was more deeply fraught with thedelirium of a half-crazed mind and the misery of abroken heart than any words of mine can the performance the
. Shakespeare on the stage. ten-ing, though restrained at My blood begins mysafer guides to rule; thrilling and terrible at theclimax of the colloquy with lagOj If thou dostslander her and torture me; piteous in the heart-rending delivery of Othellos Farewell content; andrightly and pathetically sacrificial in the awful scenethat culminates in the killing of Desdemona. His cryof anguish when the wretched man becomes awareof his fatal error was more deeply fraught with thedelirium of a half-crazed mind and the misery of abroken heart than any words of mine can the performance there was no element ofself-consciousness. The identification was Othello was a soldier, so inured to battles, sieges,fortunes, hair-breadth scapes, moving accidents,the flinty and steel couch of war, the command offierce men and the perils of combat that they hadbecome the custom of every day, and he was as un-mindful of them as of his own strength and , above all, the Othello was a lover reverent of the. Courtesu of Ercrt Jr(H«» Wciidelt JOHN McCULLOUGH AS OTHELLO FROM A CUAYOX DUAWIXG OTHELLO 285 object of his love. Nothing could exceed in patheticeffect in those cruel scenes of agonized jealousy thequick relapses into momentary sweet, blind belief inDesdemonas purity: If she be false, then Heavenmocks itself. Finer tragic effect could not beimagined than was wrought by McCullough inOthellos final utter surrender to the spell of lagostreachery, when that fiend exclaims Im boundto thee forever! The Italian tragedian Salviniexpressed the workings of the passion of jealousy, inthe scene of lagos treacherous beguilement of Othello,as I earnestly hope never to see them expressed again,but it was the jealousy of an infuriated brute, not thatof a noble, generous, tender, loving man—which is thejealousy of Othello. The English ideal is much thebetter, because the true one. McCullough filled it;and in the essential attributes of power, solidity,elevation, passi
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