Describes seeing Laura Keene play Rosalind in William Shakespeare's play, As You Like It. Transcription: all caution. I ?m not sure but that I ?m an ass and fogy for proferring it. I know her [Charlotte Kidder] as she is, yet have a sympathy and interest in her painful almost. T ?would be easy enow to invent palliation, say it has been forced on her &c, but I must pity her with my eyes open. I doubt not but that she has kept true to her husband, as far as actual criminality is concerned; but Pride and Self-Will have done it alone, ? Devils barring out other Devils. Yet what sort of purity is
Describes seeing Laura Keene play Rosalind in William Shakespeare's play, As You Like It. Transcription: all caution. I ?m not sure but that I ?m an ass and fogy for proferring it. I know her [Charlotte Kidder] as she is, yet have a sympathy and interest in her painful almost. T ?would be easy enow to invent palliation, say it has been forced on her &c, but I must pity her with my eyes open. I doubt not but that she has kept true to her husband, as far as actual criminality is concerned; but Pride and Self-Will have done it alone, ? Devils barring out other Devils. Yet what sort of purity is that that has had a rabble of Popes, and Ward ?s and Jack Hardenbrooks & small [Dan] Dods round it, talked to them, confided in ?em ? bah! How horrible all this is, thought of in connection with Lotty ?s face. But it ?s a true chapter in Life, so let it be put down. 6. Monday. Drawing &c. Evening with [Alfred] Waud to Wallack ?s, there to see ?ǣAs You Like It. ? Very pleasantly was sweet Rosalind played by Laura Keene, ?twas all that might be wished, save in one part; ? that she was not equal to. I mean the scene of Rosalind ?s swooning and assuming it to be ?ǣcounterfeit ? ? ?ǣcounterfeit, I assure you! ? The exquisite womanly tenderness, so struggled against, was not there. Nevertheless there was Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 5, page 213, June 5-6, 1853 . 5 June 1853. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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