Excerpt from The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth, Vol. 1 The truth is that no one of Shakespeare's plays can be pre sented and spoken exactly as it is fashioned and written, and that, in the regular theatre, no one of them ever has been per formed, since Shakespeare's time, without some curtailment. In the Universities and on scholastic occasions the literal original has, now and then, been given. At Stratford-upon Avon, for example, during the Shakespeare Festival, in April, 1899, the whole of Hamlet was represented, ...
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Excerpt from The Shakespearean Plays of Edwin Booth, Vol. 1 The truth is that no one of Shakespeare's plays can be pre sented and spoken exactly as it is fashioned and written, and that, in the regular theatre, no one of them ever has been per formed, since Shakespeare's time, without some curtailment. In the Universities and on scholastic occasions the literal original has, now and then, been given. At Stratford-upon Avon, for example, during the Shakespeare Festival, in April, 1899, the whole of Hamlet was represented, some of it in the afternoon and the rest of it in the evening. In Shakespeare's period, when theatrical performances oc curred in the day, and when but little use was made of scenery, the whole of such a piece as Richard II might have been given, but no audience would endure it now. Every actor who, achieving distinction, has attained power, uses his own stage versions of Shakespeare, and if all those versions had been preserved we should possess, in writing, the stage-traditions which now, for the most part, are preserved only in memory, of a rapidly vanishing race of players. A considerable number of the ms. Prompt-books used in Drury Lane T hea tre, in the Garrick period and later, do, indeed, exist, in the rich and very remarkable collection made by Augustin Daly but these are inaccess ible to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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