. An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer. ringlet peruke which Ryder(who is not a handsome, but a fine man) would carryoff well, would look very comical on, say, Billington,who is a handsome man. But if I have not said sobefore to you, I say now—it is a quotation from abook on costume histrionic— the worst head of hairis better than the best wig if it can by any means bemade available. You seem to have already foundthis out in a measure, whether I mentioned thematter or not. ... I cannot recollect the part ofMopps in The Love Knot, no
. An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer. ringlet peruke which Ryder(who is not a handsome, but a fine man) would carryoff well, would look very comical on, say, Billington,who is a handsome man. But if I have not said sobefore to you, I say now—it is a quotation from abook on costume histrionic— the worst head of hairis better than the best wig if it can by any means bemade available. You seem to have already foundthis out in a measure, whether I mentioned thematter or not. ... I cannot recollect the part ofMopps in The Love Knot, nor can Mrs. Murray,though we were both original in it. See in Sunday Times, May 3rd, the article onShylock and Dominick Murray : I wish I had writtenit myself-—exactly my sentiments^ The scales tom-foolery done away with at last by one man who daresto think for himself! We do not know how the partwas rendered in Shakespeares time, but we do knowthat for years it was made a comic character tillMacklin took it seriously. I have always thought theScales a comic point retained from the comedians. From a drawing by Ramberg, dated 1806. MACKLIN AS SHYLOCK. V- 541 Parts that Shakespeare played 55 version of the Jew ; and it more frequently than notgets a laugh (in the wrong place). Now, theChandos portrait of Sweet Will of Avon is bymany believed to have been taken in the character ofShylock, and there is nothing funny about that pic-ture ! However, we only know that Shakespeareacted Adam (As You Like It) and the Ghost(Hamlet) in his own plays, and old Knowell inBen Jonsons Every Man in his Humour, and eventhis latter part is disputed, some saying it was playedby his youngest brother, Edmund Shakespeare, whowas 16 years younger than William, and who diedDecember, 1607, or nine years before his illustriousbrother. This Edmund was the only other Mummer in the family of eight children. The Chandos portrait(an engraving of which is before me as I write) repre-sents the bard with ring
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