The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 25
... actor appears wholly unconscious of the presence of spectators . In tragedy - in all which is to affect the feelings this undivided attention to his stage business seems indispensable . Yet it is , in fact , dispensed with every day by ...
... actor appears wholly unconscious of the presence of spectators . In tragedy - in all which is to affect the feelings this undivided attention to his stage business seems indispensable . Yet it is , in fact , dispensed with every day by ...
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... actor in a perpetual sub - insinuation to us , the spectators , even in the extremity of the shaking fit , that he was not half such a coward as we took him for ? We saw all the common symptoms of the malady upon him ; the quivering lip ...
... actor in a perpetual sub - insinuation to us , the spectators , even in the extremity of the shaking fit , that he was not half such a coward as we took him for ? We saw all the common symptoms of the malady upon him ; the quivering lip ...
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... actor . Nothing could be more earnest or true than the manner of Mr Emery ; this told excellently in his Tyke , and characters of a tragic cast . But when he carried the same rigid exclusiveness of attention to the stage business , and ...
... actor . Nothing could be more earnest or true than the manner of Mr Emery ; this told excellently in his Tyke , and characters of a tragic cast . But when he carried the same rigid exclusiveness of attention to the stage business , and ...
Page 29
... actor holding himself aloof from all participation or con- cern with those who are come to be diverted by him . Macbeth must see the dagger , and no ear but his own be told of it ; but an old fool in farce may think he sees something ...
... actor holding himself aloof from all participation or con- cern with those who are come to be diverted by him . Macbeth must see the dagger , and no ear but his own be told of it ; but an old fool in farce may think he sees something ...
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... actor ( in most of his parts ) seems to have fallen into an error of this sort in his playing with Mr Wrench in the farce of Free and Easy . Many instances would be tedious ; these may suffice to show that comic acting at least does not ...
... actor ( in most of his parts ) seems to have fallen into an error of this sort in his playing with Mr Wrench in the farce of Free and Easy . Many instances would be tedious ; these may suffice to show that comic acting at least does not ...
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