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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
until then had not been performed in this
city. Her impersonation of Imogen was
masterly, the adjective befitting an inter-
pretation whose gamut ran from high pas-
sionate force to the most delicate sensi-
bility. In her interview with lachimo she
showed admirable judgment ;
not falling
into a frenzy at the disclosure of his base-
ness, but, in her repulse of the libertine,
combining courage, scorn, and loathing, in
a grand demonstration of womanhood and
wifehood. Her loftiest point was reached
in the scene with Pisanio, wherein she
learned of her husband's mad disbelief and
murderous purpose. Here, at first, a hun-
dred shades of fond hope, of anxiety and
alarm, were depicted in her face; and when
the blow fell from the letter of Posthumus,
and she dropped to the earth as if she had
been shot, her passion of grief seemed to
pass beyond simulation, and in the speech
beginning, —
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