Scene from "Ivanhoe", at the Haymarket Theatre, [London], 1850. '...the scene in which the "Maid of Judah" threatens to throw herself from the battlements of the Templar's Brothers Brough have exceeded their former efforts in this year's Easter production, which partakes of the excellence both of the drama and the burlesque. It is in two acts, and follows the order of the usual melodramatic adaptations of Sir Walter Scott's romance of "Ivanhoe"...The dialogue of the piece is first-rate, and the hits, puns, allusions, and parodies are of unexceptionabl
Scene from "Ivanhoe", at the Haymarket Theatre, [London], 1850. '...the scene in which the "Maid of Judah" threatens to throw herself from the battlements of the Templar's Brothers Brough have exceeded their former efforts in this year's Easter production, which partakes of the excellence both of the drama and the burlesque. It is in two acts, and follows the order of the usual melodramatic adaptations of Sir Walter Scott's romance of "Ivanhoe"...The dialogue of the piece is first-rate, and the hits, puns, allusions, and parodies are of unexceptionable quality. They irresistibly excite Priscilla Horton was the crowning magnificence and intellectual marvel of the getting-up and appointments are in fine taste, and costly in embellishment. The success of the piece was decided; it is one, also, which must grow in public estimation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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