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Title: Shakespeare on the stage
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Winter, William, 1836-1917
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Actors Actresses
Publisher: New York, Moffat, Yard and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ying that in the latterher walk was heavy and unelastic, and that shemarked the distinction between the muffled voice andseeming mechanical motion of the somnambulist andthe wandering mind and quick fitful gestures of amaniac, whose very violence would waken her from thedeepest sleep. Her embodiment of Lady Macbethhas been designated as fascinating and persuasive.That of Ellen Terry might be fitly described in thesame words. Neither, it is obvious, was more thanhalf right. THE SPIRITUAL ELEMENT. As observation investigates the past and thoughtranges the long avenues of memory, reviewing thenumerous and zealous efforts that have been made tointerpret the wonderful tragedy of JNIacbeth, themind realizes a profound impression of genius, intel-lect, study, passionate devotion, and noble endeavor,ardently employed on that terrible subject. Nextto Hamlet among the plays of Shakespeare Mac-beth has awakened the deepest interest and causedthe most extensive controversy, the reason being that,
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,/, hfi Wiinh.ir ,11,I (,r,.rr I:.j,,,rif/ht ELLEN TEKRY AS LADY MACBETH MACBETH 515 like Hamlet, it opens the vast, mysterious realmof spiritual life, the boundless environment of theunknown, the abj^ss of the universe, into which allthinking persons sooner or later peer with anxiouseyes, awestricken and perplexed. Whence did wecome and whither are w^e going? Does death endall, or is it only the portal to life? Do angels of lightand angels of darkness hover over us, to make or mar?Is the individual human being a waif of chance, ora creature of the fixed decree of Fate? Those con-siderations and others like to them are in the depthsof all analysis of the vast subject of Macbeth.Imagination has not in any work of literature takena higher flight than it takes in that tragedy. Thetheories and the technical expedients of the greatactors who have attempted illustration of it possess anintrinsic interest for the student of dramatic art, butthe greater value of their testimony is the help wl

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