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"Master, co on, and I will follow thee", Chippendale "uccd to
return to the house for a moment to fetch hio cap, wallet and
staff, before delivering his pathetic words of farewell" - an
effective, if somewhat obvious, false exit.
-'lie curtain rose at the beginning of the second act to
disclose the luah and lavishly "built out" forest iromised in
minefield's interview. To its effectiveness the reviewer in The
Pall Mall Gazette gave enthusiastic testimony:
Ac for the scenery, it must be admitted that
the clu'c ia the Forest of Arden, in which so
much of the action passes, forms es beautiful
a sylvrn landscape as ever was put on the
otage. A dam has been built across a little
brook flowing through "the green cloom of the
wood", and from the lillied pool thus formed a
little cascade comeo purling forth, to lo; e itself
behind a grassy, flower-gemmed bank, eloping down
to the bottom of the hollow.
Godwin wrote on his pro .ramie:
Flowers under trees artificial - bazaar-like
- don't grov; in nature.
with an art-critic's eye for the vr.lue of onre-painting,
Quliter observed a luck of joie de vivre in the figures disolayed
in this landscape:
Soberly speakinc, thce.0 scenes are execrably
dull; there is a heavy -TO ^>riety about them,
they v;oary where they caoald iMtorest, for there
is an absence from them of that very t ~irit of
insouciance, and that :.ir of ir:ordv_u on v.iiich
all their charm cshoulcl denc-nc. .
looked more like a --ar^en tjr.n a woodland,
and J'.IQ ^ fcroo took the interruptions of the brook's •urli
as a aim that Tare and I-Cenrlal could "control nature as well
as Art".
At the bG ;r;ir>ninr of the act, the bnnioho^ PuJie and ./'is
:ictndso:.:ely-cl; cl court ttit aid lioteneO to Anicns's render j.-yof
"Under the .irecnv/ood Tree". The nice (J.F. Young) e divorce1.
not only iiis firrt r.pecch but the firct half-line of •', iens's
reply, ."I v;ould not chan-e it", and .irosenoly tho ?irr:t Lore
(-,pl;_.ycd by Mr,- riuon Thomas) described -"."ouec's meditations on
the wounded ,ctag. The coi.Dr.ny left to ,ce, !: out t>udr r.ielancholy