The Wallet of Time Volume 2; Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre
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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. 1913 Excerpt: ...of beauty. Mrs. Campbell's acting imparted nothing beyond revelation of a morbid personality. The actress, nevertheless, had her audience--for in America there is an audience for everything. "ELECTRA." The reader of "Vanity Fair" cannot have forgotten Thackeray's description of the entertainment given at Gaunt House, when Becky Sharp figured, in the charade, as the murderer of the slumbering Agamemnon: "her arms are bare and white--her tawny hair floats down her shoulders--her face is deadly pale--and her eyes are lighted up with a smile so ghastly that people quake as they look at her.... A Great Personage insisted on being presented to the charming Clytemnestra. 'Heighha? Run him through the body. Marry somebody else, hay?' was the apposite remark made by his Royal Highness." That "apposite remark," after all, contains the essence of the subject--known to scholars, but not, perhaps, to all readers. Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, in concert with her lover, Agisthus, has murdered her husband and those criminals reign in his place. Of the three children of Agamemnon, --those children being Orestes, Electra, and Chrysothemis, --only Chrysothemis remains in the palace of Argos, she being, somewhat ignominiously, submissive to Fate. Orestes, absent, has been reported dead. Electra is expelled, and all her life is devoted to grievous wailing for her departed sire and to the thirst for vengeance upon his murderers. False assurance that her brother Orestes has indeed perished aggravates her woe and largely augments both the bulk of her lamentation and the length of her speeches. Orestes presently returns to Argos and, to the great comfort of Electra, he kills both Clytemnestra and JEgisthus. Later Orestes is pursued by furie...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151223166
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151223166
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 322 gr


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