The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A.: Including a Summary of the English Stage for the Last Fifty Years, and a Detailed Account of the Management of the Princess's Theatre, from 1850 to 1859
The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A.: Including a Summary of the English Stage for the Last Fifty Years, and a Detailed Account of the Management of the Princess's Theatre, from 1850 to 1859
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...beings, flitting through boundless space, is to expect them where they can never be found, except in the incongruous tales of eastern enchantment. The interest and incidents of Shakespeare's play amply suffice for the purpose in view, and he has combined them with the hand of a great master, and with skilful ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...beings, flitting through boundless space, is to expect them where they can never be found, except in the incongruous tales of eastern enchantment. The interest and incidents of Shakespeare's play amply suffice for the purpose in view, and he has combined them with the hand of a great master, and with skilful variety to produce what he designed, --a fairy drama, A Alidsummer Night's Dream. If the mortals introduced had been rendered more prominent than the mythological agents, the entire construction and object of the play would have been subverted. Shakespeare knew better than his critics when, where, and how to bring his resources together, and to balance them so as to preserve that just harmony of proportion, which marks one of the most delicate distinctions between ordinary ability and exalted genius. Very few of Shakespeare's immortalities have been so unmercifully subjected to the transmuting process of the crucible as the "Midsummer Night's Dream." As far back as the return of Charles II. (in 1661), a comic actor named Cox, celebrated for a peculiar class of drolls and farces, added this magnificent conception to the list of his mummeries, or rather a part of it, under the title of the " Humours of Bottom the Weaver." About thirty years later (1692) it became an opera, and was called the " Fairy Queen." In 1716, a drunken bass singer, Leveridge by name, changed it into a masque, entitled, " Pyramus and Thisbe," from which it became a mock opera in 1745, the music being supplied by a composer named Lampe. Ten years later, Garrick produced it as " The Fairies," with Italian singers. Colman repeated a similar experiment in 1777; and, in 1816, it was presented as a musical play at Coveut Gardeu, with alterations and additions by Frederic...
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