Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
The American play is yet to be written. Such is the unanimous verdict of the guild of dramatic critics of America, the gentlemen whom Mr. Phoebus, in _Lothair_, would describe as having failed to write the American play themselves. Unanimity of any kind among critics is remark...
Hamlet, in his wholesome advice to the players, in his command to the garrulous old gentleman who would have been his father-in-law had Hamlet been a low comedy instead of a hig...
7. ACT II.Shakspere's Moor of Venice was one of the earliest of the stage negroes, as he is one of the best. If the _Account of the Revels_ be not a forgery, he appeared before the court...
8. ACT III.The burlesque among serious writers has a bad reputation. George Eliot, in _Theophrastus Such_, says that it debases the moral currency; and George Crabb, in his _English Synony...
9. ACT IV.While the "Grand Spectacle of the _Black Crook_" was enjoying its fourth successful run at Niblo's Garden, New York, in the season of 1873, a precociously bright little musician...
6. SCENE VI.A few extracts from the prologue which Mr. Epes Sargent wrote for Mrs. Mowatt's _Fashion_, in 1845, will give a comparatively correct picture of the feeling which existed betwee...
1. SCENE I.The American play is yet to be written. Such is the unanimous verdict of the guild of dramatic critics of America, the gentlemen whom Mr. Phoebus, in _Lothair_, would describe a...
3. SCENE III.The drama of frontier life in this country may be described as the Indian drama which is not all Indian; and even this variety of stage play is fast disappearing with the scalp-...
4. SCENE IV.The typical and accepted American of the stage, the most familiar figure in our dramatic literature, is a Jonathan, an Asa Trenchard, a Rip Van Winkle, a Solon Shingle, a Bardwe...
5. SCENE V.The number of plays based upon life in New York, all of which are strangely similar in title and in plot, or what must pass for plot, and all of which have been seen upon the Ne...
2. SCENE II.The first of the purely Revolutionary plays presented in New York was, probably, _Bunker Hill; or, the Death of General Warren_, and the work of an Irishman, John D. Burke. It w...