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250.
In her first exclamations we trace, besides
astonishment and anguish, and the acute sense
of the injustice inflicted on her, a flash of
indignant spirit, which we did not find in
Desdemona or Hermione ... /i.e. "False to his
bed!" etc../... This is followed by that affecting
lamentation over the falsehood and injustice of
her husband, in which she betrays no atom of
Jealousy or wounded self-love, but observes, in
the extremity of her anguish, that after his lapse
from truth "all good seeming would be discredited,"
and then she resigns herself to his will with the
most entire submission.
(Shakespeare's Heroines (1879), p.226f.)
15. Fletcher, pp.104f.
16. Fletcher, pp.107f.
17. For example, The Spectator (January 38 1843) and The
Morning; Post (see Appendix B): The Athenaeum (January
28) commented on "some needless omissions of dialogue".
18. Helen Faucit's book is described by Shattuok as
"probably used for touring in the 1840s and 50s" (p.84) -
it contains cues and notes for entrances, but gives
little indication of "business" - except for the
difference in texts, it tells us no more than Macready's
book about what went on on stage. Miss Faucit'3 version
of the "awakening" speech differs from Macready's (she
allows herself more lines) and though both books omit
the "madded Hecuba" lines, in her commentary on the
play Miss Faucit prints a version of the end of the
speech which includes the a (see Part I, Chapter 2,
note 19) - a version similar to that adopted by Phelps.
The organisation of the first two acts can be compared
in ilaeready's and Helen Faucit's version, and that of
Ke.able -
Macready.
Act I includes I, 1-5.
Act II I, 6 and 7; Ii, 1.
Act III. II, 2-4 (5 omitted); III, 1-5
(departure of Lucius omitted)
Act IV. Ill, 6 (7 omitted); IV, 1 and 2
(3 omitted).
Act V, IV, 4; V, 1-3 (4 omitted), 5.
Faucit.
Act I includes I, 1-7 (omitting 3).
Act II II, 1-4 (omitting 5).
Act III III, 1-3 - scene added "from
Cumberland"-4. /i.e. a sequence
of III, 5 (1-65), 4 then 5 (70-161)