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suggested that the delicacy of Rosalind should influence the
humour of Touchstone t
The philosophy of Jaquee, the sentiment of Orlando,
the wit and hmour of Touchstone, even anpear to
be tinged with the tender satire, the playful
wisdom of the daughter of the baniahed duke.
Hare's performance appears not to have pleased by its lack of
this tenderness.
The second scene of Mrs Kendal's first ;:ct ran continuously
through the second and third ocenovof the original: after
Orlando 's conference with Le Beau, he left the stage and
Rosalind entered with Celin. The omic, ions - r omc thirty linos
of prose and verse - were unremarkable, save for the prudishness
of "side" for "thigh" in "A galant curtle-axe upon my
thigh", and the well-established re-arrangement, "No, some of
it is for my father's child", where the Polio prints "child's
father" (1.3.11-12). As was commonly the co.ee in Victorian
acting editions, references not only to bodily functions, but
to any form of physical unpleasantness were excised: thus tlio
exchange between Touchstone and uoo
- >!ay if I keep not my rarO: -
- Thou losest thy old r,nicll.
(1.2.95-6)
was not acceptable. Rosalind's height was Diminished, inaccordance
v;ith Specie" ing's emendation, by substitution of "looser"
for "taller" in the line "But yet indeed the taller ic his
daughter". It appears from ''he oatuj.- i:y LOVJOW (but not from
the published text) tlr t Rooalind i eprived Colin of the act's
concluding couplet,
Now go v.e in content
To lib rty, and not to banishment.
The new version, however, c"icl not end \ itli thia, but ith tlie
transposed II. 3, in v;hich Adam and Orlando lorve tlaeir "lo^cinr; 1
The scene \vas not cut in any way, and ;-;ave Jolin IS;'Clc;'.u, as
Adam, a further opportunity to impress the critics. Ouilter
may stand for the majority of liir: colleagues in the opinion
tlir.t Maclean's was "n thoroughly good performance". The rrll
'Jail :rsotto suggest cd that he improve upon it by adopting a
niece of businesa used by Chi-Tocr.C.'le, a veteran of Buckot one's
Haymarkot company, and "the Ac1 am of Adams". At the ..ores