. Shakespeare on the stage. rds from the part of the Fi?^stGrave-digger^ provided a new term of sepulchre forYoricks skull, muddled the matter of Hanilefs age,curtailed the words of Laertes, omitted Osric, andabsurdly concluded the tragedy with a chorus of dis-tant angels,—those flights, presumably, which arementioned in the beautiful apostrophe of Horatio. EDWARD HUGH SOTHERN. Mr. Sothern appeared as Hamlet for the firsttime on September 17, 1899, at the Garden Theatre,New York, and since then he has repeated hisperformance in many cities throughout is high critical authority fo
. Shakespeare on the stage. rds from the part of the Fi?^stGrave-digger^ provided a new term of sepulchre forYoricks skull, muddled the matter of Hanilefs age,curtailed the words of Laertes, omitted Osric, andabsurdly concluded the tragedy with a chorus of dis-tant angels,—those flights, presumably, which arementioned in the beautiful apostrophe of Horatio. EDWARD HUGH SOTHERN. Mr. Sothern appeared as Hamlet for the firsttime on September 17, 1899, at the Garden Theatre,New York, and since then he has repeated hisperformance in many cities throughout is high critical authority for two opinionsrelative to the acting of that part,—one, by Hazlitt,that it is the most difficult of all parts for an actorto personate; the other, by Macready, that a totalfailure in it is of rare occurrence. Both opinionshave been confirmed by experience. Stage historyrecords only a few demonstrably faithful embodimentsof Hamlet, but it mentions many that were acceptablebecause respectably meritorious. Mr. Sothems per-.
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