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adornments, bold embroideries, and semi-spherical
or Phrygian her.d rc : **•
(16 October 18C4)
For his services in staging Hamlet, he was paid ninety pounds,
cue! ten shillings for each performance after th > hundredth.
The financial aspect of Godwin's employment vr-e not, of course,
publicized, but his active collaboration and the Life interview
were valuable to Barrett*s campaign to m^ke the Princess's
a competitor of the ^yceum.The articles p_nc! press releases of
Irving*s company nlv/rys seemed to ,;ive the impression that
the actor-mane^er was personally responsible for all aspects
of the ^reduction: Barrett was known to give Godwin considerable
licence - though its full extent was not die-closed. By the same
token, Irving was known to have organised on ensemble about
hi:ASelf, a figure invariably pre-eminent in the Lyceum's
str^c-:>icture a. Barrett had the reputation of being a democratically-minded
manager - at least in comparison with his
riv 1.
ii. The Performance and its Reception.
No working -->ronpt copy of the 1884 Hamlet has come to lirht:
in the Enthoven Collection is a copy of the printed acting
edition, marked by a spectator with some moves and ot.ier notes,
In the account which follows this v/ill be referred to as "the
vi/ori vt-co -\y", adopting Chcrles Shattuck's catholic use of the
term for any methodical record, of a performance.
In his review of Henry Irviiv;;'s ^ilct, in 1074, Clement
ocoot described how the nu ience, having ivaited ell day, sat
v/ith lit le nore thtJi patience t-irsu.-h the opening ocene,"^
Although it revealed something of the production's style
witU the brov;n ancT re- 3 of the sentries' armour - reviev/ors in
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