Identifier: lifeartofedwinbo00matt (find matches)
Title: The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, comp Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904
Subjects: Actors Actors
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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his conduct and speech Mr. Barrett also pictures before us a Shylock whorestrains his eagerness this side of tremulousness, byso much the more heightening his intensity; whoretains a dignity of old age in his outward guise andthe dignity of a rooted purpose too wise to unfolditself abruptly even in the growing tightening of sus-pense in the trial scene. It is, in a word, Mr. Barretts glory in this part tohave given us that Shaksperean refinement and truthof characterization which permits us to understandand to appreciate the peculiar justification and tempta-tion the man had whose deed is yet repulsive andcondemnable. Shaksperiana, November, 1886. MR. EDWIN BOOTH. In these, and many immortal words like these,May wondering thousands, with delighted care; Note thy chaste charms of classic-postured ease,Thy sculptured face, thy rich voice, nor forget That thou of Kean, Macready, and all who wearThe buskin grandly in arts annals yet Beamest the radiant equal and true heir ! Edgar Fawcett.
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EDWIN BOOTH. MR. EDWIN BOOTH. Edwin Thomas Booth was born on his fathersfarm in Harford County, Maryland, Nov. 13, 1833.Although not dedicated by his parents to the stage,his apprenticeship began in early youth. The careof a growing family keeping his mother at home,young Edwin was sent forth while almost a child him-self to act as guide, companion and friend to the mosterratic genius that ever illumined the theatre in anyage. As mentor, dresser, companion, the boy livedalmost a servants life in hotels, dressing-rooms,among the wings, in constant and affectionate attend-ance upon him to whom the early drama of Americaowes so much of its glory. The applause receivedby the father rang in the lads ears as a sweet preludeto that which was ere long destined to be his own.Indeed, he seemed already to participate in the gloryof his father by the close and anomalous relation. Curious and characteristic anecdotes are given ofthis strange union. Incidents were continually hap-pening which were

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