New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-13

the speaker 20 think that sound 10 The counter
psrt Of feeErg-ard tha, the noise he makes the
deeper will be the impression produced The theory
OF the thing is that TIE speaker is overcome and over
wlelued si,h grief; bu, the fact is that the speaker
oysrcomes and o,erwhelns grief he grnds and rolls
ard puverises under bis tongue, till it becomes
solt OF Anglo Italian rectstve unlike anything on the
earth or urder il.
In the closirg scere where explAr atoss ere made,
Othelo tonfeases Il st he and Iago consprsd against
the life Of Casio:
"CaI-D.sr r.n4r,. never gave you cause
| Oh-I dc believe IT, and ssh your pardon, etc.
This response of Othello a strsigh forward, manly
,6uohrg spology, ard there be but one night way
of pronouneing ii. Bat Mrs. Kembls hesitates bog.
gles, locks sheepi.b, and. with the air Of bashfu
| boy, ssys,
acknowledgements Ard I-s-ssh-yOur-psrdon"
We think the manner Of the petition would fully JUS
tfy Cassie in refusing it.
Speaking generally, we will not cay that Mrs. kem-
bic fails to spprehend the character of Otheo because
all his characteristics the surface, and they can
hardly be misapprehend. But she fails entirely in re-
presenting the charscter to an audience. As for
| Isgo, she does Tot understand him at all
His subllety aud hypocrisy escape equally her
observation and delneston. she makes him
fat, facetious fellow, fond Of joke for the sake
Of Joke But this is not Isgo. He is cynical, not
facetiou He has 10 desire to make people laugh. He
would much rather wound his frends-if he had any
with snetr than amuse them with jest. On the
contrary Mr. Kemble makes all the fun she can with
lagos fings. She gives them with the air OF pro-
essed lester ard looks around to who takes them
When che says to Othello, in the third act,
"she did deceive her father, marrying youi
when abe ed 10 shake And lear your Eooss
She loved them most -
Mrs. Kembe assumes the air Of boon companion
bantsrrg his associate instead of the quiet, persua
sve nsinuatrg tone of subordinate trying to deceive
his master. And az ain in the same scene,
81 think this hath a little dashed your spirits,
was even beyond banterrg it literally quizzicali
whereas il should have been a soietous sympathzing
comment on Othelos obvious Distress and yet uttered
half doubtipgy, if with delicate regard to Othellos
feer gs that partly failed to the obvious distress
We cite these instances specimens only, and with
hold many others.
In conclusion Of our structures on Mrs. kembles
style We will add only this we wish the lady could
see "a others see" the stare that she introduces
often The eyes and mouth opened very wide, the
head is thrown forward, pause enfues and-every-
body anxiously waits to know what is coming. The
SEQUEL is sometimes something and sometimes nothing;
but il is seldom anything "to the purpose" That
stare, to parody Emihas account Of Jealousy,
ia monster
Besot upon the stage, born on the stage !"
and we heartily wish it might never get of the stage
In "Othello," as in Macbeth" and elsewhere
Mrs. Ksmbe follows the greater part of Hammer s
Improvement" Of the text. 1t happens, however
that Sir Thomas did not make quite so many OF these
charges in "Otheo' as in some other plays, and, OF
those he did make, none quite go absurd as those
we pointed out in Macbeth" We thank Mrs.
Kembls for repudating his amendment of "dvinity Of
he'll" at the close of the second act; and we could
paIdon her, ard any reader or actor who would vep'
ture to correct Shakespeare own grammar in the
third act, where Iago says:
There " kind Of men, 90 loose OF soul
That In their sleep will Innter their Affairs;
One Of this kind Is Csssio,' Sc.
This is one Of the strange errors OF our own DAY;
everybody falls into IT, in conversation and in print
and we would like TO see it brought to an end
Mrs. accidentally, we presume-transpos
the words of the line,
"Tbis only T. the vitchcrst have used
Here comes the lady let her ~itnsssh H."
She read it:
"Ths IL the only witchcrsf," Ac.
The difference is not very important but Shake
speare's arrangement is the best, because tho two
words, "only" and "wtchcrah' being both EN-.
phstc, the emphasis be better marked when they
ale separated.
The audience on Tuesday evening was large and
quiet but there was very little appliance. We are
quite sure Mrs. Kemble would succeed far better by
abandoning her stage conventionaltes and cannot
but regret that her fine natural qualities should be 80
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