Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-20
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| OPERA HoUsE.-The great Janauschek
| appeared last night in her sublime redition
of the dramatization from Charles Dickens
Bleak House, entitled Chesney Void, a
| piece in which she has made much repu.a-
| ton throughout the large cities of the
Northl The play abotihds in thrilling IN
terest, with larger proportion of impor-
tant characters than is found in the major
] ity of the popular dramas of the day.
! Madame Janauschek sustained the double
characters of Lady Dedlock and Hoftsnse.
her French maid, and was supported by an
excellent company, thus rendering the
| play very acceptable. There was a natural
ness in her iIlpersopatiop of the characters
above mentioned that found appreciation
among those who would see the mirror held
up to nature. Very seldom have we seen
a more faithful representation of an authors
conceptions, and the smooth and easy man.
ner which characterized the play through
out was credit to the company n6tt travel
ing with this distinguished actress.
Tonight Madame Janauschek appears
i'll Medea. The dramatist simply desired
to represent, in this classic production, the
extraordinary impulses that the human
heart may be impelled to from the effects
of love or hate, and from the rendition that
Janauschek gives us, from her estimation
OF the great character, we may expect
something grand. Medea was daughter
of Estes, King of Colchis, famed for her
skill in sorcery and enchantment. When
Jason came to Colchis in quest of the gold
en- fleece, she aided him in obtaining it,
and then fed with him to Greece, where
she displayed her magic skill on Eson,
whom she restored from decrepitude of
age to the bloom of early youth,
in order to do which poets re-
late that she drew from his veins all the
blood, and filled them with the juices of
certain herbs. At another time she is said
to have cut to pieces an old ram, and then
boiling down in cauldron, to have caused
young ram to come forth. After several
such extraordinary featS she was compelled
to fly with Jason to Corinth. After resid-
ing for some time at Corinth, she was for
saken by Jason, who espoused the daughter
of Creon, the Corinthian King. She took
summary vengeance On her rival. Having
destroyed her two sons whom she had by
Jason, she mounted a chariot drawn by
winged serpentS, and fed to Athens, where
she had by King Kgeas son named Me-
dus, who distinguished himself by found
ing a city called Medid, after himself He
afterwards fell in battle. Media returned
unknown to Colchis, and found her father
deprived of his throne by her brother Per-
ses, whom she destroyed, and returned the
throne to her father. Medea seems TO be
in history only another form of Juno. She
is the counselling goddess, and always act
ed in friendly part, aud the atrocities at
tributed to her are regarded as fctions of
the Ktic dramatists. Medea reigned at
COrinth, but the people not wishing to be
governed by an enchantress, conspired
against her, and resolved to put her chill
dren, seven of each sex, to death. The
children fled to the temple of Juno, but
were pursued and slain at the ALTA. The
whole myth of Estes and Medea is derived
from the worship of the sun and Juno at
Cnrinth