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Ill<br />

up to i'Tacbeth and his vdfc - they v/ork back<br />

to Henry Irving find Ellen Terry - and a very<br />

clever proceeding it is*..<br />

(3 January <strong>1880</strong>)<br />

The "official" answer to these chai*ges was Joseph Comyns Carr's<br />

Macboth an^,^imiing, nor for Ell or. Terry'a being<br />

mild all tlio way through: it ceenis an unavilinr: equivocation,<br />

rather than a defence of //hrt happened on stage.<br />

A better defence v/us that r ubliohor1 a decaf e 1; tcr by<br />

Christopher o-j JohJ'. (the pseudonym of C ri,tobel f;rr:hall, a<br />

close -u'riond of Edy CrL i ; ' ). In Ellen Terry (1899) the interpretation<br />

of Lady Macboth ic explained in terms of "nerv us<br />

force" - ..nozraiicite and intelleetualised oririj ',,lity 5 vith an<br />

anclro ynous quality a.)oronri. te to the "Dec; cler ; loveaent":<br />

C-.H. 'o in its most intorestin.:-; o-wcta is made<br />

of nervec and otc-cl, not of beef :md iron. Hot

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