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The Old Play-Goer

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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. 1854. Excerpt: ... of Richard is an improvement, and the songs are effective where they are. The idea of playing our old comedies according to the text is impracticable. The freedom of Shakspeare's age, and more particularly of that which followed it, will not allow of it. Mr. Macready's textual predilections must have been sadly outraged, when he lately brought out Congreve's " Love for Love." I wonder whether he will play the scene of " Nackey, Nackey," the next time he brings out " Venice Preserved"? All real play readers know it is part of the text, and consequently it ought not to be omitted. The last age was sentimental, this is selfish and calculating; the alteration of Lear so pleased the humane feelings of the audiences of those days, that even Johnson's critical acumen was overruled by his benevolence and love of justice, and he gave his sanction to it. We now think that he was wrong, and have judiciously returned to the original. The In this instance Johnson's criticism sprang from the heart and not the head--not the spirit that made him write his abuse of Milton, but that which caused him to shelter and protect the blind Miss Williams and the friendless negro., Tempest was changed in a much worse degree, for, as far as such a tale could be injured, it was quite spoiled. I admit that I approve very much of these two alterations, but there needs not have been such a fuss made about them; the public called for them, before Mr. Macready made them. In considering such a subject as this, I wish you to retire to your closet and to your thoughts, and to examine a little more deeply than as a mere frequenter of a theatre as a place of public amusement. The great cause of the Corinthian style of the day is this: --We have become a nation strongly enamoured of the arts, an...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235731303
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235731308
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr


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