New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-18

ST. CHARLES The ATER.--O thello.-In the list of
creations whose perfect paternity is attributable to
William Shakespeare, there is hardly any one many
sided, SO round, so even, harmonious and yet so
high as that Of the Moor. There were other like
characters outlined before and there have been many
limitations since; but, the BURN that drew Hamlet,
that etched the ragged outlines of Macbeth, that
created Falstaf and damned Richard to deeper and
more lasting Immortality than any history could do
that painted with the water Of nature, Opheia
and Desdemona, was the only one that has ever
sketched and rounded off such.a being as the Moor.
Compare him with Kotzebue's Stranger; compare
him with the Charles de Moor of Schiller compare
him with any Of all the famous creations ofany great
dramatsts and how wonderfully and eXplicably is he
knit together what d strange union Of more than
oriental love and more than oriental hate? what a
human volcano? what philosopher Of the glandest
emotions, molten and liquid? MOI there is not any
where to be found, in Shakespeare or any other writer
q being approximatng to the gigantic but gloomy
proportions of the proud Moor, who is as though
hero Of Fingal had had real being solitary-isolated
alone.
And all around him are strewed conceptions as
grand and original as his own. Iago-the MaChayel
of villains and traitors-and Desdemona blossomine
like rose upon the craters brink; with other stars
whose light shines in every ones memory and shall
ever shine-a model and worlds beacon of true,
trusting and sincere love- 10 put them all breathing
and speaking on the stage as they rise before the
readers mind evident impossbility. To approx
mate nearly thereto the best any disciple of the
sock and buslin can hope for.
There are no unfinished characters in 0thello.
Iago, Desdemona, Emilia, Cassie, Brabanto, the
Moor himself, are all complete and finished; but it
needs something more than even the genius that
drew them to portray them as drawn The picture Of
othello, presented last evening, was one of those
studied and accurate performances which it pleas
ure to behold The conference that 0thello has with
his wife was not rendered more artistealy in so tal
as art is made to counterfeit nature, by Macready
nor any other actor we have ever SEEM than it was
last evening by Dir. Davenport.
The difficult, prismatic, subtle Iago tasked the
powers Of Mr. Pope and in although good so far
a. it is to be remembered as q whole-there was
something more rough and objective than belongs to
the part For, Iago is whose virtue is that Of
the wolf and fox !: to deceive by cunning casuistry
so far as possible only showing the whiteness of the
teeth and hIoodred fangs when driven to the wall :
essentially what Hudson has pronounced him, a phi
losopher of vice Z
Mrs. GIadstane's Desdemoaa we cannot overlook,
although we cannot DO It that praise IL Wen deserved
Gentle, soft, almost very picture of the imagi
nation IL so well filed the part as to leave US hardly
anything to ask. No better nor no equal rendering
Of that has been seen by us for long time
+ hls. Leonard ~ Enasia showed very accurate
conception Of the eharaeter, and rendered it in q
manner worthy Of the highest commentator
ssne Of the other Characters deserve praise but
re can only congratulate them asa whole that they
succeeded s 50 well in rendering drama that il 50
oliileQlt. Can it not be repeated?