Pictorial Shakespeare, 1880-1890 - eTheses Repository - University ...

he had "left the -:i iirit .. do it jacticc:
Of '.:ir V/ii: on Barrett'c Hamlr.t v/h;*t cnn be .. id
except th^t it is eminently reapcctcb"'' ? He hnn
v/oighcd every word, goLture and inflexion of the
pc'.rt.
Altiiou n otacrr: accuc d Barrett of melo'.-r. i.v tic excesses -
i'iio -iitr*. etc. cl..:ir:ied that he raouthed and nmted "like the
most a.-. TLV ted type of ':-;jt-End r'jici transpontine heavy villain"
- Archer found no cuc'.i lapses. Despite a "manly" be;-ring and
"G.-•If-rcc.trained" manner, it could not be denied that the
tK;r.L'or!ir iice lacked a qu: lity e^centic 1! to cuccess in the role.
The roo^raint th, t h. d given cuch rrcchnecs r.nc, . utiiority to
Bnrr tt's c,ci± J.ir, in cuch pl.iyc as T.\hed.
U'ion the moniory. ; Iic Hrmlot ILJ the product of
pft:lr;nt intclli; :ence, coiit itioned by a co. L::OIIol;
cc perconality.
uc turniiv; to oalr..' c. notice, \/e find the -pro'uction credited
with ;i':J-:inc HfjnLet " a mor_t vict-aresque and ;-ni ,c>tec! :.;olovranatic
ploy, quite coherent c-jici ^.couonti; 1, and i'-All oi the
liveliest liui-i I A interest".
'j-'iie ijriiicecs's •i'licc'.ti-c jroc_uction, cuu; tLc -xrfon:ic.ncc of
the ae l;or-;.i:ain. er, h-.u brought to the .•!"y tho^.c q-acilitiec of
o-j. cii\r , c.r.cl iiioerrn-etr.tion r.,hich clev ted tiio ".-:tvi-.:rior
meloc'rcu.ia". The hero'c outr;tf,nuiii.'.i cu.vli'oiec v/ere dicpli'.yec!
only at the •:-••>-.ro-Ti/.. te crises, and t:ie villain h-cl a ccr-L i;i
shrewdness th;.t -.xivvontcd him fro..- '•-•liir.c a ;:,ho-.; ox ovil i .;•••• ,;-