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258.
The distinct utterance of Mr. B. Egan, who had
only some half-dozen lines to speak, as the
physician, in the first act, for instance, took
the audience so much by surprise that a prompt
reference was made to the playbill to discover
his name.
(April 2, 1872) - but the reviewer's opinions on the
merits and demerits of the acting do not tally with
those of the annotator closely enough for any identification
to be made. The privately-printed views of
one other playgoer, Richard Dickins, are worth the
mention -
George Rignold was excellent as Leonatus,
vigorous and intense. Henry Marston, one of
the Sadler's Wells veterans, admirable as
Belarlus, just one of the parts in which the
old school excelled, and Henrietta Hodson was
very sweet and human as Imogen. Ryder was, I
think, too old and vulture-like for lachimo,
but he was too skilful an actor not to play
with effect.
(Richard Dickins, Forty Years of Shakespeare on the
English Stage, August 1867-Au£U8t 1907 (privately
printed, n.d. /c. 1910/. p.14).
Kotes to Chapter Eleven.
1. C.E. Pascoe, The Dramatic List (1880), p.368.
2. 1'he Dramatic Peerage (1892), pp.228f.
3. Dutton Cook, Nights at the Play (1883), p.269.
4. Dutton Cook, p.405.
5. Dutton Cook, p.209.
6. rvutton Cook, pp.162, 171.
7. Pascoe, p.109.
8. gue .Dramatic Peerage, p.236.
9 Mander and rlitchenson, The Lost Theatres of London
(1968), p.103.
10. Joseph Knight, Theatrical Notes (1893), pp«9f.