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...success in amateur theatricals led to his going on the stage, and he made his first appearance in 1874 as Chastelard in "Mary Stuart" at the Princess Theatre. In the same year he made an early start in Shakesperian drama as Fenton in the "Merry Wives of Windsor." Soon came a notable event, the production of "Dan't Druce," in which the young actor made a pronounced success in his love scenes with Miss Marion Terry. He showed an easy grip of character in "Duty," and in 1879 he played Sir Horace Welby in "Forget-Me-Not," with Miss Genevieve...
...fairly electrified the audience by the perfection of his acting. At the Garrick in 1890 as Baron Scarpia in "La Tosca," Mr. Robertson's grim, powerful and horribly fascinating performance came as a revelation to play-goers who had identified the actor with the sympathetic young lovers of Shakesperian and modern drama. After creating the part of Dennis Heron in Pinero's "Lady Bountiful," he gave a beautiful and memorable rendering of Buckingham in "Henry VIII," and was called before the curtain again and again with Mr. Irving and Miss Terry...
...Riddle is one of the foremost readers of this country. He was instructor in elocution at Harvard from 1878 to 1881, and appeared as Oedipus Tyrannus in the Greek play given in Sanders Theatre in 1881. He has since given Shakesperian and other readings in the principal American cities, and is well known for his imitations of the accent and mannerisms of leading actors...
Dowden and other Shakesperian critics, have divided the range of the poet's composition into four periods. I should prefer to divide it into five, as follows: 1586-97 - the period which we will designate as marking the Romeo-Proteus-Biron mood. It is Shakespeare's lightest period, when the moral tendency is not really settled. The second period is from 1597-1603, marking the Jacques-Hamlet mood. The melancholy Jacques is a preparation for Hamlet. During this period, most of the sonnets were composed. Dur-the years 1603-1609, Shakespeare has returned to Stratford. This is his tragic period...
From the full experience of Harvard students, an axiom has been established in our university, which is as firmly founded as an axiom of English. It has taken the Shakesperian form, "All's well that ends Wellesley...