Description:Excerpt: ... which lasted until April 20, 1912, when it was terminated, in Detroit. "JULIUS CAESAR."--MARCUS BRUTUS. On October 7, that year, at Toronto, Canada, Power gave the most important performance of his career, thus far, when he appeared as Marcus Brutus, in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," acting in association with Mr. Frank Keenan as Cassius, and William Faversham as Marc Antony. Next to "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice," "Julius Caesar" has, in recent years, been the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, and there is no drama in the legitimate repertory which at a time of social discontent and seething unrest, such as the present indubitably is, would make an equally forcible appeal to general public sympathy, or, because of its clear exposition and fervent advocacy of popular rights, exert as strong an influence for the general good. Celebration of freedom and rebuke of violence were never more timely and welcome, and Faversham could not have chosen INCIDENTS OF "JULIUS CESAR" 137 more wisely than he did when he determined to revive this tragedy. "Julius Caesar," one of the most sublime works in the English language, disputes with "Richard the Second" and "King John" the title to preeminence in the quality of eloquence, and, among the tragedies, it comes next after "Othello," in the element of action. It thrills the imagination and it fires the mind with vital thoughts of liberty; it presents heroic pictures of an imposing, ancient civilization; it causes impressive pageants of actual Roman life to pass before the vision, in one long, glowing, symmetrical array of royal pomp, moving majestically onward to a melancholy but splendid close; and it enforces an abiding sense of that inevitable, terrible retribution which, in the inscrutable...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tyrone Power. To get started finding Tyrone Power, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Excerpt: ... which lasted until April 20, 1912, when it was terminated, in Detroit. "JULIUS CAESAR."--MARCUS BRUTUS. On October 7, that year, at Toronto, Canada, Power gave the most important performance of his career, thus far, when he appeared as Marcus Brutus, in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," acting in association with Mr. Frank Keenan as Cassius, and William Faversham as Marc Antony. Next to "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice," "Julius Caesar" has, in recent years, been the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, and there is no drama in the legitimate repertory which at a time of social discontent and seething unrest, such as the present indubitably is, would make an equally forcible appeal to general public sympathy, or, because of its clear exposition and fervent advocacy of popular rights, exert as strong an influence for the general good. Celebration of freedom and rebuke of violence were never more timely and welcome, and Faversham could not have chosen INCIDENTS OF "JULIUS CESAR" 137 more wisely than he did when he determined to revive this tragedy. "Julius Caesar," one of the most sublime works in the English language, disputes with "Richard the Second" and "King John" the title to preeminence in the quality of eloquence, and, among the tragedies, it comes next after "Othello," in the element of action. It thrills the imagination and it fires the mind with vital thoughts of liberty; it presents heroic pictures of an imposing, ancient civilization; it causes impressive pageants of actual Roman life to pass before the vision, in one long, glowing, symmetrical array of royal pomp, moving majestically onward to a melancholy but splendid close; and it enforces an abiding sense of that inevitable, terrible retribution which, in the inscrutable...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tyrone Power. To get started finding Tyrone Power, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.