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derived from any sentimental interest in the dancers:
At the first sound of the music she pauses for c
moment, as ii av/akened by it out of her previous
indifierence. her eyes kindle gradually*, her face
and figure assume animation.
His doubts took the form of a feeling th«-1 "it rather
disturbed the pleasing effect of a figure formed rathe;- for
the graces of repose than for those of movement"* The
movement itself seemed a little incongruous i.i oae so tall and
statuesque cs liiss Anderson, but it was ^cinittedly one which
none but a sensitive and intelligent actress would have c
conceived*
Mrs Gal vert performed Lady Capulet in a runner v;hich was
admitted to be "conventionally corredt", but The L-^clon
Figaro suggested that the character night be made "less
repellent" (7 November 1^4)* Lytton described htr as a
"most alarming lo.kia^ dame .ith a terribly forbidding
countenance". Laura Payna, the Lady Capulet in lo&2, had
played the part in a fas ion which Vanity Fair. (IB iiarch)
considered "uselessly harsh ana sour"* The tradition of
Lady Capulot as ^r/nde. d;.no scons to have been quite firr.ily
established, her social position fixed by unwavering adoption
01 "Lady" rather then "-. lie" end "Old La. ft , the alternatives
given in the second Quarto. Mrs Jameson had aescribed L; cy
Capulet, -.ithout vcrr-.nt from the text,at:, "S'. eepiii^ by \.ith
her treJ.n of velvet, her black hooc, hor lau, ana h»..r ros>. rj
- the very be/-u icec 1 of a proud Italian nictron of the
fifteenth century'"31 . The nurse \.c-s played by tirs Stirliii^,
v;ho distinguished herself in the sane pert in lc£2, \.hen she
had ttken it for the first tire. No.v The Illustrated
Sporting and Dramatic ?.'ews praised h-r for ".^rin _nc out its
homely humours" without, as Mrs Calvert hi d done ;:ith Lacy
Capulet, "modernising" it. T e new version gave I.rs 3tirlin0 ,
v;ho was Govsnty-one years old, so ,e n-.. lines to le;rn, but it
o attod, as us^al, nost oi the earti-iness >1 the charectei.
There \;as no allusion to the suckling of Juliet, or tic
development o± the husband's joke ("Thou :;ilt iall back.^rc.
when thou co.aest to a^e"). In Irvi;i0 f s version ov-n the
chaster bo^i .riin L of this sally v/?s omitteci.