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oversight of \vin,cfield's, or did his uutliority extend no
further than i^ie setting and the minor character:'? The Captious
Critic remarked thn.t the excel ent or/;'ini... tion of the crow:a
and the grand efiects should hnve been extended to the princi-'.
lr:', v/ho "should stand and riove as though they felt the
force of it 0 . .,< Ikley, ;,ho t^encirLbed his dominant impression
as 'one of weakness, eked out by noise and polychromatic
pageantry", complained that inrfielC had "only half the
courage of his opinions" and "should U; vo wielded the scissors
r.t; freely as the lailoidoscope". The rcvivr.l was too long for
a satisfying c .ectacle, and too op-ctnculrr for a cox1 performance
of thu -lay ,
JI.IG uu'.;:.n es'li jufo_> ;.:ent on *.rrj Lon^try wan thr.t rhe v.-ns
no nore than a Iry-fi.iure in tao ^'..-cr.nt, ("pret ciet.t vhc-r.
she r^ac f-ute", nccoiv'iinp: to The bta.:.o). In Truth die : ir-.p-rity
bct-./cen actress rjid c.-^rccter v/a,o put ixi terwr: e-, jn leas
polite:
a ic a ',••;•:'. n t a:icl not n '"u:.; y* She i.:,
n t rcxnd creature, not n pretty .-.'.ru teur trj-ing
to set.
Clonent Scott vonlc 1. • clrit no nore than t . t "rn L n/;-try
would "phoTorrrph cv' -.irrbly 1* cc» the "centre of iriiu:::or; ble
lovc-ly pictures", aric r'lio S">. L:X' ".vrote t'rir-t she v/rs 'colOly
stfitue :OUG, j-rrceful in outline, beautiful to look ir^ort,
but anhin^ little or no £.--• ^cal to the :cr;sicnrj". ':;-.it it is
doubtful v/aot/ior r.ny wtron^-^r ir-v-^cc- ion -..oulc li,-;ve boon
•veleome. Tho rr>vicvT-, of the ""ri' i.oo3- 'a 'roc'iotijii ii.jlude
a g-ood dec! of pious hoi'i'-,'v-J-lnr-: over the excesses- of ;.p.r;?h
Bernh:-rrt, v:ho hnd i-l'yocl Clcop'ttrp in a l"y "by .••.•ro.ou and
?.1orc-ru on ?3 OctoVr t tV-e Porte St. ?'. rtin. The --Ir.y,
Cleona-bre. is not a d-.r^c-. translation of iili^kesp'.- re'c-,
alt ou-;h it n^es rar.viy --^.s^a.: es a/>' : individual lines. I"; was
not one of , crah ir^t»s bo; t ro os, but it w-j5 stronger :ieat
til- n : >rc A^ n try's nril i'' 1 rnylinh heroine. "illi.'x\ -"inter
fouiif' 1 it uni^'pr-'bly dir:;:^-ti-«C - (Lnn i^eal of ^oniaiiio -c1.
i.hich do-rac'es it to !;he level of tho ':i or nnc! t :'io C-JG" -
and eoiitrau-tod ;--rrtou'c v.i" : i .^ikcsrc^re'e queen:
....there is P trorondouP -jiin 1 onnetite; but
also t ere -re onlenuicl. COM in-r;led qur.Iities of
h : i-t, dad anc' in;;.'.ginr tion. Clict