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ibleS. Lady Tree wrote th,-1 he danced "• ith the peculiar
gr: ce and buoyancy" of fat men, "like a bobbing cork on the
\ tter, as distinguished fron a
Tree did not return to the pley, after its initial run,
until the se; son of 1>01 « it subsequently reraa; ned in repertoire
until 1912. In the meantime he produced Hamlet (1692),
the first parx, of Henry IV (1696), Garrick's version of The
Tanftna of the uhrew (1897), Julius Caeser (1898), Kina John
(1899) and A Midsummer Night's Drepm (1900): The Tempest.
Henry VI^l . Tv.-olfth iat.ht. Kuch Ado about Nothing and Richard l
followed in the new century. Although King John wes produced
tt the Crystal ralnce in September 1889, Hamlet was Tree's
first fully-stereo revival of a S hakes pe; re an plcy after the
Merry vives, and, although ingenious, it appearec to su/., cct a
lack oi maturity - in The Illustrated a porting and Dr ^tic
flews Tree was sei; to ; ant "that spontaneity of physic 1 resource
;,hicL marks the difference between po..er and nervjus
violence" (6 February 1892). The tragic pert of the character
wes acted "more or less et e. tension". Tre^ v;rs as yet given
only the qualified praise and encouragement accorded to a
conscientious and talented uo c,in;Lor - his experiments v;ith the
New i/rM?.E, notably the first production in London of An Enemy
of the People (1893), enjoyed a guarded reception. The revival
of The Merry .