New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-10
THE DRAMA.
Mr.. BUTTONS NEW THEATER-PRODCC-
TON OF WAT TYLER"


In Ire yesr Of grsce 1874, yoauz NJ Rob =
sorihey, beng upon the hot Summer morn uss u
Lohcop, and beng as well az his frie>ds Coletiise
srd LIyd) full Of Psntsoerscy and these three
ul1irers OF Bs;h," managed TO wri,e the Rel Reoub
Icsr diana of Wat Tyler, for which be VS. st.er.
ward fou'ed in the sotes to The Vision ofJude.
nen,. When that most profane production appeared,
southey had become Tory srd the Editor OF tn
QEdrteriy RseNr, and, Do dOgbt, felt tba, "vat
Tyler was, indeed, rathe, an odd production fo~ a
rigorous conservative. i, is only fair to say that tn
DIANA was printed without Soatheys knowledge aud
sgsnst bis wishes. AT the sane tine he met the
matter II bis usual cheerful ard honorable way: sud
when he lopg afterwsrd collected his works, be
did not leave out the obnoxious production. He
sad frankly IN an exguisitey written introduction that
Re was TO more ashamed of having been Repub.
hCan than of having been boy. Very few men would
have bad the moral courage thus to svow what they
considered to be the grave errors Of youth and we are
cure that no other Tory Of the time would have done
so could have done go, with such gree aud good.
nsture.
"Wat Tyler Is not by any means the bee. even Of
Southey poetics productions Mr.. Burton bill pio-
nouuced it TO be "a world,eno. ned poem," and &c.
ve suppose that very few people in the theater list
night had ever read it. Certainly il s not perfect
production. II is full of the inevitable faults Of
youthful writer; il s crude and tiresome and las Mr..
SpsCsby would say "not to put 100 foe POI 1t up,n
il, It is rather long-winded. Feeling the author
did when, in three days he wrote it, be could hardly
make it anything but aconstant anachronism. With It's
perpetual illusions 20 tyranpcal presthOod-to the
folly of war with France-to the injustice Of atemp.
ing to impose the Bourbon dynasty upon that coun-
tJ-to the terrible taxation TO which the people
England were subjected to sustain her con meats
policy, We can imagine that tie performance o,
Wet Tyler IN Lont on 10 1874 might have provoke
rot. Just row, and IN New.Yolk, its best point)
lOtt.
At the sane time must say that whoever hiss
prepared "wst Tyler" for Buttons, has doae hs
work remarkably well. The object 10 make a
telling melodrama, and that object has been achieved.
The scenery was excellent the costumes tolerably a."
curate the interest well sustained and the whole thing
fairly Dansged. In this respect wat Tyler at
Buttons presents remarkable contrast to the chef
d0r of Mr.. Jonsthsn Birch, albeit that European
scholsrs rendition into English Of Faust has met
wnh the appreciation of the late King of Prassis.
Mr.. Burton has produced really enert lining drama.
Mr.. j. W. Wansck, jr, who is specially engaged for
the part of the rebellious Wat, played with good
deal Of spirit, and many of the lines came
from bi lips with nothing lost through his elocution.
The other part. were well sustained, and the whole
general business was excellenty well managed. We
csn without scruple, in these days recommend to all
doughaces and to ell spolog cts FOR tyranny heairg
of wat Tyler" at Buttons Theater. The play il
indeed little incendiary, and might not answer IN No
bile or New. Orleans. Its performance in New.Yo-&
VII not, We trust, endsuger the Union.