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Post described it fully:
Her method nay com.vre < ith tlu't of Kc dome
Bernhardt. Jhe latter actress crushes, so
to speak, into the ;u;.t the bearer of
ill news, aru 1 stamps unon the oro-trate form
in a lar'jmer recalling the treatment of lago
by oi nor oolvini as Otiiello; and less imperious,
but not less effective, is the an^er
of the latest Cleopatra. She holds in her
hcnd the rich circlet which she had intended
to ,-ive him as the price >f his intelligence,
and she strike;:; nin again and ape in -with the
jewels, . hile he falls ii. terror at her feet.
(19 No/ember 1890)
This is i:i oni me, but no substitute for "she hales him up
and down". The ccone continaecl -.vith the ne^en :er's return
(III.3). - rclicr found in this intornvet- tion '-'too :::ueh of
tiie spoilt child, too little of the pasci -.11:1 i-.e \von:^n', and
the reviewer in The 'r tur-''-'y j-:cvi : . w t v/ho admired ulie !'Ctress*s
oov.-ers of "facir,l ox r^o;- ion" in tiie pcrformanco, v;rs .-;i:.—
appointed by her reaction to the m: rrir go, cu.^ -erting that
Cleo v.tra "'..ould hf.vc been frr nore i':irious"«
•li.'i:o peare's 111*4 and III.5 v.ero omitted, and t/.ic first
scene of ..re I». n 'try's third r.ct begon, li':.-: Calvcrt's, ith
Oaet-'i-'s cesc i tion of Antony's "im.olence" and the or^lv;/.!
in ..or.ie of ;Jct.- via (111*6) - the setting v;, s or:ce : • i i -fio
Atrium of Oncr;cr*s hou:e. ^ho.keanc^re ures Ct-oc r as a purveyor
of information in thir, r cene, but £lvcs fair:, a touch of pcrjo •-
r.lity in the reception of his cicter. The convent i --nnlly
",'o'.:.'!n" frith in desti >y shovm in iilc orfr, of cohort ("let
determined things to r'cctiny/ Hold xib; v/ailocl :hoir nay")
reveals a decree of liy.-ocri- ,y: ho l:nowc th-.t Fortune ic lil:e
a v;onrm and mr.y be wooocl, r^nc1 hr.'.s cvnic^lly u.rcc' ''ctc:vir to
bind Antony's li; ndc. The little individuality ivrn to Caor;pr
in these v/orr's v/cr: forfeited by "rs ' n ; ir:;, for chc c^ t.ic
four lines from 81b to °5 .
ihe cec^nd rc^-nc of the act V.T.S conror'ccl of III.10 and
III.12, o it ting s:-