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him njthint, but blood. Terror-stricken, he slides
from the throne and sits brooding at its foot.
(Boston Herald. 2i. October
There is no mention of the "letp" and the cry of anguish. In
Dramatic Motes - ..hich reprinted a reirie first published in
The Observer - Richard is described as "stealing to the throne
end sUrting at the reflection u x>n his hand., .before beginning
'The Son o.. Clarence have I pent .*? close 1 " (DrMnetic Notes. 1669
(1B90) pp. 29-31). however modified the busines^, although
vivid, had little Justification in Shakes.e re's text (IV. 3)
^here Richard's account of his crimes is folio, ec by the
sardonic "To her I go, a jolly thriving v/ooer" - Kensfielc's , .i
guilty thoughts, v. ether violent or restra.nwd, sort ill v.ith
the business-like t nes of Richard's reception of Stanley's
bad neis. The effect v.js in any case un-literary, achieved
by mime, setting enc music.
In the fifth act, all the scenery for nich was by Telbin,
Mansfield moved quickly to the tent scene arid, ith ti;e deatn
of Richard, the play's clir.i, x. He had included as a second
part oi Act Four the confrontation .ith IMQZZI Elizabeth and t .e
iuch^si of York, during vhich Richard st rted guiltily at
each mention of his crimes - guilt v.hich The 3 &t relay Kevie
found excessively markoc. Ora the tent scene hio le r hed
reached its zenith. Becks recorded an extr neous piocj of
business in tLe lines,
c .. chides tide tarciy ^ cited ni,_,ht
Th:-.t like a f^ul ana ugly .'itch does limp
,jo teaivusly av.ry. I'll to fty c-.juch.oi
Becks observed:
g >es tov;ards t nt - sees hio sru ao - fancies it
as soaeone - ^rcsps: s..orc fi-jm table u, ^lashes!
Oh! Oh I re )!s.ces s ore i.nc retires.
The text v;&s rrron^ec tj "discover" hicharu sittin^, at c. oocii'irv-
before his tent, st ^e~ri c ht - The ^t. ^o io^au the scene
l: m'X.t imposing,". Mansfield's plen, tcunbrntec to uithmai-, oi
asving RicLc^u sjGck i r the- visions, v£.s evidently ab- nconec ,
but a sjiies of gcu.es we s used t> iv- tr.e cppiritionj the
ao,>ropriato ethurerl .urlity, r.iost «.rtist?c lly nfna^od". A
revie^.e in Tli^L-Vl^-t 1 '0 (April 1&&9} found ti.e behcv: jui- of