The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
STAGE ANTHOLOGY.

The greatest kings do speak like ordi-.
nary mortals.-Napoleon.
Wherever there is a playhouse the world
will go on not amiss.-Hazlitt.
Players they are the only hon
est hypocrites-william Hazlitt.
Our poets do not understand the stage,
ana our dramatiStS are not poets.-R. T.
Sharp.
In all countries, in all times. the define
the highest order of poetry.-Lord Bulwer.
The art of painting and the art of mu-
SIC are nearly connected, and the stage
Bulwer in 'tzanoni.''
The delight which a work of art affords
seems to arise from our recognizing in it
the mind that formed Nature again in
active observation-disclosures.
In the portraiture of evil and criminal
characters lies the widest scope for an
author profoundly versed in the philos-
ton.
If historical drama is to be attempted,
therein must be so presented that they
shaH be recognized as equally human with
the men and women in the audience.-R.
Farquharson Sharp.
Shakespeare probably cared but little
whether the fencing scene in Hamlet"
he took the incidents of the story as he
found them, and lavished his genius on
the workings of the mind.-Bulwer.
1 am not one of those who, when they
see the sun breaking from behind a cloud,
stop to ask others whether it is the moon.
CLEAN of genius breaking athwart the
gloom of the stage-William Hazlitt.
Even when they gave the second part
amused itself very we'll You must, of
course. see this second part several times
in order to come to the conclusion that
you don't understand it.-Daniel Splitter.
In the modern play of ''Virginius,"
when the scene opens and discovers the
avenging father upon the body of the
murdered Appius it is in Virginius, at
once criminal and childless, that are CON
centrated our pity and our terror.-Bul-
wer.
those which it falls to the province OF
the sublimest genius to arouse, so 1t is
chiefly, though not solely, in the machi-
guilty agent himself. that we arrive at
the fountain of the softest passion.-Bul-
wer.
The murder of Duncan rouses our COM
passion through our admission to all the
guilty doubts and aSpira tionS of Macbeth;
and our terror is of a far higher and
more inthralling order, because 1t is re-
hected back upon US from the barred and
struggling heart of the murderer than it
would have been If we had seen the phys
ical death of the Victim.-Bulwer.
The fact that most theaters are given
to the portrayal of cheap plays does not
initiate against the power of the drama.
No matter how much censure and pessi-
misIn may exist, these can not run the
drama down. If we once perfect the IL
fusion and get the audience under a spell,
the theater will have fulfilled its function
as an art.-OtiS Skinner.
As early the time of Shakespeare's
first appearance, actors must have arrived
at a not inconsiderable degree of excel
1ence otherwise they could not have done
justice to the earlier works of the great
poet, or even of his older contemporaries.
Marlowe's Jew of Malta" for instance,
is SO difficult a part to play that the piece
has been reproduced within the first half
of the nineteenth century. on the London
stage, in order to test the powers of a
Famous actOr--Ulrici.