# Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving

Author: Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912

Genre: Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68779

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Personal+reminiscences+of+Henry+Irving+Stoker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

of place in the first or second acts. In Act IV., sympathy with the mother was added to intense and overwhelming anxiety for his son—and all seemed still consistent with the original conception of the character as shown. That is, there was no jarring note as things progressed. In fact he was subtly changing in the mind of the audience the original idea of the man’s nature. And all the time the face was growing refined and more marked with human kindness, till in the last act he seemed to be a saintly man full of noble and generous feelings; a patriot and martyr. In the last act all the externals were changed: wig, “make-up” of face, clothing from top to toe. The harsh colour of his first-...

## Chapters

- [did. On July 8 of the same year he came to the Lyceum and brought Lord](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/personal-reminiscences-of-henry-irving-68779/chapters/3/index.md)
- [scene 3, where Shylock and Bassano enter, an odd thing occurred. I give](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/personal-reminiscences-of-henry-irving-68779/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Act III., it seemed natural enough, though it would not have seemed out](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/personal-reminiscences-of-henry-irving-68779/chapters/1/index.md)