New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-27

Hoey are more an noubus than an ADVANTAGE In fact
abe looks TIE lady rhe fegus to be go well that When the
truth is discovered and poor Perez has to resign him
sell TO bis lowly pos ion Of husband of domestic we
have toO mach difficulty - persusde ourselves tia,
Fs'ifana is really Only lsdy's maid and not lady
This 10 some extent destroys the artistic effect.
Nj WOlcOt as Perez bas no. sufficient scope for his
pleasant genius bat this ia not tho fsul, Of the artist
but % the authors, wbc have borrowed the idea OF
The Spanish roveIi.t. without investing i. with his
genius.
Beaumont and Fe'cher's characters lack the essen.
tsl conoition OF stage SUGGEST, Indivdu Atty. The
SpanSrds ard Italians they bring before talk too
fluent EDgsh to be taken for denizens Of Barcelona
Messins and too Spanish and allan in spirit to
be taken Tor citizens Of Crest Britain. Nothing can
be more Incompatible with English character than the
foory Of Perez the smartnees Of Leon and nothing
car b. more ineooDci able with Spssish humor than
he cumsy vsgsiies Of the and the uoid ns sdity
of The other. We do not desire TO en,er now on I.
critical analysis of this any o.her Of Beaumont and
F9tchers comedies We wish only 10 point to one
Of their chief bemsbes most coarse sud Vulgar OBJ
scenity.
1t il natural that love should take the prominent po
stion il Goes On the stage. Love, a. pictured by
Shakespeare and by of The great German masters
eIbobes tie heart ard elevstes the thoughts OF those
who listen. Bat love pictured by Beaumont and
: etcher, is the love Of mere Calibsn Selfish SEN
sual ard who ly unhsOwed by sentiment IL ia simply
such prurient love these worthless had for the mis-
tIefs they held In common, and which kiEdies the
blood Of Marguerite. Such portrayal Of unnitigated
depTavity might have suited the times Of Erizsosts
ard the four Georges but Is unworthy Of our time aud
the high petition woman holds among US. This polu-
ton Of all female honor belongs to the East where
women are slaves and are trained up simply TO minis
Ter 10 mans g'osser passions; but in our age, and
especially in our country, where women occupy
higher place in the affections and regards of than
in 8ny preceding one, such wrscheo obscenity be-
longs 10 al Beaumont and Fletchsrs productions,
chou not be permitted on the stage.
In the comedies Of Franco Italy and Spain, any
such illusions gracefully surrounded with spark
ling git which almost who ly walls their coarseness
but in Beaumont and Fletchers comedies they are
presented their gross edness with all the charac
tersic bluutness Of John Bull and are thus not only
Like the othsrs improper but arc what the French and
Spanish are not-aosolut4ly disgusting.
Yet with this heavy drawback, there is qusint old
look about of these old comedies, full OF historical
reminiscehce, that inspires somewhat Of the same
kindly softeDiDg feeling with which one look. on an
Old picture or pese of furniture of the sixteenth cen
tury Bey ond this we do not care to this buried
cid rubbish o. fepdal Europe disturbed. We would
eier TO the place of such comedies taken by good
American plays, built not on the plan of those of
modern French and foreign birth revili,g woman and
sefamiDg virtue, but Of inspiring the higher feelings OF
the ore, end intoxicating more inspirtng example for
the other.
When "Rule Wife and Hsve Wife" was con-
GUIDED, Mr.. Lester called rsp.urousy before the
curtain, and in few modest and gentlsmany words
expressed his thanks for the ia of the public.