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...Edwin Booth as an actor, with particular reference to Bertuccio, Iago, Hamlet, King lear, Richard Third, and Shylock. There will be reading from Shakespeare...
...yard line. At this point Harvard awakened to the fact that the situation was becoming serious, and successfully stopped further gains. Again in the second half Brown went from the middle of the field to the 8 yard line. In these plays, Millard as before was the principal actor. It was Lewis's alertness which saved Millard's pretty run of 22 yards from ending with a touchdown. Again, too, Harvard braced and did what might just as well have been done before her goal was seriously threatened. It is undoubtedly true that Newell's absence was largely the cause...
...retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life long occupation. Acting but poorly he became a cobbler of old plays. He began and ended his life hard up. Early in his career he killed an actor in a duel and was thrown in prison. There he met a Catholic and was converted from the Protestant faith, and when set free a T was branded on his thumb. Later he returned to the English church...
Shakspere's London period is one of great literary activity. He was an actor in the Blackfriars Theatre and was engaged in writing and recasting plays. By 1598 he had written at least 12 and perhaps 16 plays and two non-dramatic poems. In 1603 six more plays had appeared and in the reign of James the additional works were produced. He probably never sent any of his writings to the printer's except Venus and Adonis and Lucrece. It has been many times asserted that his objects in writing were purely mercenary. This is not true. He was making...
...esteem of companions He moved in a Bohemian world, but he was not of it. He was closely connected with his celebrated contemporaries and he was in favor at court. His unobtrusiveness is a noticeable trait. He had an unusual shyness of all publicity and was a quiet stately actor. His favorite parts were those of the Ghost, in Hamlet, and Old Adam, in As You Like It. He was, in fine, "a fantastical fellow of dark corners." He was devoted to his sacred art but the author disappeared in the work. Ruskin has said: "An artist has done nothing...