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Madame Eleanora Duse, who was first seen in this country only two years ago, is not less remarkable, in her own most modern way, than the two players already named. The completeness with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish...
...Modern Language Conference. Discussion of Professor Hempl's Circular ("American Speech-Maps"). Sever...
...soon to be published. Last October Mr. Corbin went to Baliol College, Oxford, and since then has been studying there certain archaic features of the Elizabethan drama in preparation for the publication of his book, which will have a prefatory note by F. York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. As its title shows, the book is a study of Hamlet, and of Shakespeare's environment, with the object of showing that the mad scenes now played had a comic aspect now ignored. Mr. Corbin's general point of view is that Shakespeare only wrote the drama...
When Mr. Copeland came to consider the Hamlets of the modern stage, he took for a starting point Mr. Warren's. saying about the character "Give me Booth for the picture, Davenport for the business, and Murdock for the lines...
...poet is the interpreter of his age to itself, yet he is not the interpreter to his age alone. He is the contemporary of all ages. The Ilad and Odyssey are not antiquated and the characters of Shakespeare are all modern characters because human nature remains unalterable in its essential elements...