SOME OF THE OLD ACTORS This notice is full of favourite quotations and of sentiments which Hazlitt had expressed elsewhere. See specially the Dramatic Essays in vol. vIII. PAGE 366. Warbles,' etc. L' Allegro, 134. Paradise Lost, 11. 599. A musical farce, acted 34 times. "Our heart's core. 367. Fancy's midwife.' 'Gay creatures,' etc. 'Tears, etc. Cf. Ibid. Act 111. Sc. 2. Cf. The fairies' midwife.' Romeo and Juliet, Act 1. Sc. 4. Paradise Lost, 1. 620. 368. Mr. Kean's Othello, etc. P. 414 and notes. 'With kindliest change.' From The Times. See post, p. 406, and vol. vIII. Paradise Lost, v. 336. THE COMPANY AT THE OPERA 369. Mr. Peake. Richard Brinsley Peake (1792-1847). The farce here noticed is called by Genest Little Offerings.' "Crabbed age, etc. The Passionate Pilgrim, Stanza XII. Miss Goward. Mary Ann Goward (1805 ?-1899), who afterwards became so well known as Mrs. Keeley. She married Keeley in 1829. 370. Madame Caradori. Madame Caradori-Allan (1800-1865), who made her début at the Italian Opera in London in 1822. Mademoiselle Sontag. Henriette Sontag (1806-1854). She married Count 372. Lord Byron and his Contemporaries. Cf. ante, note to p. 355. THE BEGGAR'S OPERA 373. Vanity, chaotic Vanity.' and Juliet (Act 1. Sc. shapen chaos!' Hazlitt may have had in mind the lines in Romeo 1), O heavy lightnesss! serious vanity! mis 374. Waste her sweetness, etc. Cf. Gray's Elegy, 56. Splenetic [splenitive] and rash.' Hamlet, Act v. Sc. 1. Blanchard. William Blanchard (1769-1835), for long a member of the 'And when the date, etc. Butler, Hudibras, Part 1. Canto 1. 285-6. De Vere. By Robert Plumer Ward (1765-1846), published in 1827. It was supposed by some, though denied by the author, that De Vere was intended to represent Canning. We have heard,' etc. 2 Henry IV., Act ш. Sc. 2. 375. Sir John Sylvester. Sir John Silvester (1745-1822), Recorder of London. The thief, etc. Leviathan, Part 1. Chap. 3. A Race for Dinner. By G. H. B. Rodwell (1800-1852). 'And Birnam wood, etc. Macbeth, Acts iv. and v. The Poor Gentleman. By George Colman the Younger (1801). PAGE 375. To advantage dressed. Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 297. 376. Miss Ellen Tree. Ellen Tree (1805-1880), who married Charles Kean in 1842. She was a younger sister of Mrs. Bradshaw, the actress and singer. 377. Miss Love. Emma Love, afterwards Mrs. Calcroft, had made her first appearance on the stage in 1817 at the English Opera House. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW AND L'AVARE 377. The lungs of others, etc. 378. Mr. Wilkie failed, etc. Cf. As You Like It, Act 11. Sc. 7. 'Warble, warble.' As You Like It, Act 11. Sc. 5. 379. Mademoiselle Mars. For Mademoiselle Mars in a sort of shadowy Catherine and Petruchio,' see vol. ix. p. 151. 380. Ninette à la cour. By Charles Simon Favart (1710-1792). 381. Seraglio. An opera by Dimond, produced in 1827. Charles the Second. By Howard Payne, produced in 1824. MRS. SIDDONS 381. Pie Voleuse. See ante, note to p. 304. 'Born to converse,' etc. Cf. Pope, Prologue to the Satires, 196. The Fall of Nineveh. By John Martin (1789-1854). The painting was being exhibited in Bond Street. 382. Abridged Paradise Lost. Mrs. Siddons published The Story of our First Parents selected from Milton's Paradise Lost for the use of young persons, 1822. Hazlitt no doubt refers to Scott's Life of 384. A triumphant peroration, etc. Napoleon, published in 1827. The worst, the second fall of man. Cf. William Windham, Speeches, 11. 47 (Nov. 4, 1801). 'Barren spectators. Hamlet, Act ш. Sc. 2. Mr. Stanfield's landscape backgrounds. William Clarkson Stanfield (17931867). Veluti in speculum. Cf. 'Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium,' etc. Terence, Adelphi, Act 11. Sc. 3. THE THREE QUARTERS, ETC. 384. The new comedy. Ups and Downs, or the Ladder of Life was the title of the piece here noticed by Hazlitt. It was acted eight times. The secretary of the Admiralty, etc. Croker. Cf. ante, p. 344. 385. A nice distinction in Miss Burney. See her Cecilia. · Killing no Murder. A farce by Theodore Hook, produced in 1809. 386. Like dew-drops,' etc. Troilus and Cressida, Act 111. Sc. 3. 6 Fine by degrees,' etc. Prior, Henry and Emma, 430. They best can paint them,' etc. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, 366. Lord Porchester's tragedy. Don Pedro, King of Castile, by Lord Porchester, afterwards 3rd Earl of Carnarvon (1800-1849) was produced at Drury Lane on March 10, 1828. Lord Morpeth's. Lord Morpeth, afterwards 7th Earl of Carlisle (1802-1864) published in 1828 The Last of the Greeks; or the Fall of Constantinople, a tragedy in verse. VOL. XI.: 2 P 593 PAGE 386. The Sphynx, etc. The Sphynx (1827) and The Athenæum (1828) were started, and The Argus (1828) was projected by James Silk Buckingham (17861855). 387. Oh! dearest Ophelia, etc. Hamlet, Act 11. Sc. 2. 388. He knows his cue, etc. Cf. Othello, Act 1. Sc. 2. 389. We do not wonder, etc. Français in May 1828. Voltaire has borrowed, etc. "The poet's eye,' etc. A MR. KEAN Kean had played Richard 11. at the Théâtre Cf. ante, p. 282. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1. 390. 'Should be as a book,' etc. Macbeth, Act 1. Sc. 5. The Hetman Platoff. The Russian general, Matvei Ivanovich Platoff (17571818), Hetman of the Cossacks of the Don. See vol. 1x. p. 465. 6 391. Give us pause.' Hamlet, Act 111. Sc. 1. Miss Smithson. Harriet Constance Smithson (1800-1854), who played frequently in France and married Hector Berlioz in 1833. A series of elegant bas-reliefs, etc. Cf. vol. vii. p. 456, where the same comparison is made. 392. Little Bartolozzi. Miss Bartolozzi made her first appearance (at the Haymarket) on June 17, 1828. She was a sister of Madame Vestris. MUNDEN'S SIR PETER TEAZLE For Hazlitt's connection with The Times as dramatic critic see vol. viii. p. 512. The fifteen articles reprinted for the first time in the present volume have been included upon internal evidence of Hazlitt's authorship. No reasonable doubt can be felt with regard to any of them. PAGE 392. Past Ten O'clock. "A moderate farce' by Dibdin, produced March 11, 1815. See Genest. In another account of Munden (vol. vi. p. 270) Hazlitt had referred to his 'broad shining face' and 'the alarming drop of his chin.' YOUNG'S HAMLET Cf. this paper with the account of Hamlet in Characters of Shakespear's Plays, vol. 1. p. 237. PAGE 394. The Miller and his Men. A successful melodrama by Pocock, produced in 1813. 395. The paragon of animals.' Hamlet, Act 11. Sc. 2. "Peaked or pined.' Macbeth, Act 1. Sc. 3. "Oh that this too, too solid flesh,' etc. Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 2. "The pretty Ophelia.' Ibid. Act Iv. Sc. 5. DOWTON IN THE HYPOCRITE Cf. the notice of The Hypocrite in A View of the English Stage, vol. viii. pp. 245-7. PAGE 395. Very craftily qualified. Othello, Act 11. Sc. 3. MISS BRUNTON'S ROSALIND Cf. the notices of two other Rosalinds in A View, etc., vol. viii. pp. 252 and 336. PAGE 397. Miss Brunton. Elizabeth Brunton (1799-1860), who in 1823 married Frederick Henry Yates, the actor. "Good emphasis and discretion.' Cf. With good accent and good discretion,' Hamlet, Act 11. Sc. 2. 'The gods,' etc. As You Like It, Act 111. Sc. 3. MAYWOOD'S ZANGA Hazlitt had noticed Maywood's Shylock. See A View, etc. vol. vii. p. 374. In 1821 Maywood wrote to Hazlitt from New York introducing a Mr. Greenhow, who was entrusted to present to Hazlitt a morsel of George Cooke's liver. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt's Memoirs, etc., 11. 1-2. Cf. the essay on Richard II. in Characters of Shakespear's Plays (vol. 1. pp. 298303), where Hazlitt speaks of the miserable medley acted for Richard .' and gives some of the omitted passages as being 'peculiarly adapted for stage effect.' Shakespeare's Richard III. was revived at Covent Garden on March 12, 1821, Macready playing Richard and Mrs. Bunn Queen Margaret. Cf. the account of Kemble's Pierre, vol. viii. p. 378. 403. The most replenished, etc. Richard III., Act iv. Sc. 3. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER 403. Borrowed from Fielding's Joseph Andrews. Cf. vol. 111. p. 115. The PAGE 405. Except in the murder scene. KEAN'S MACBETH Cf. vol. VIII. p. 207. 'Proud and lion-hearted,' etc. Cf. Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care,' etc. Macbeth, Act Iv. Sc. I. KEAN'S OTHELLO 405. This young debutante. Her name was Mrs. Robinson. 406. Mr. Kean's Othello, etc. This passage, to the end of the notice, was quoted more than once by Hazlitt. Cf. ante, p. 368 and vol. viii. p. 414 and notes. KEAN AND MISS O'NEILL Cf. this with Hazlitt's appreciation of Miss O'Neill in The London Magazine, vol. VIII. of the present edition, pp. 392 et seq. PAGE 407. O'erstep the modesty,' etc. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2. 408.As one in suffering all,' etc. Ibid. Abide the beating,' etc. Twelfth Night, Act 11. Sc. 4. THE HONEY MOON 409. What is set down for him? 'Plautus was too light,' etc. Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 2. 'And near him,' etc. Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character, 43-4. 410. Go thou,' etc. S. Luke x. 37. Hazlitt was a very frequent contributor to John Hunt's Weekly Miscellany,' The Yellow Dwarf, which ran from Jan. 1 to May 23, 1818. Most of his contributions were included in Political Essays. See vol. 111. pp. 254 et seq. Of those included in the present volume 'The Opera' was reprinted with some omissions and variations in Literary Remains, the rest are now republished for the first time, on the strength of what the editors regard as the conclusive internal evidence of Hazlitt's authorship. All the essays are reprinted verbatim from the Magazine. PAGE 411. M. Jollivet. Jean Baptiste Moïse, Comte Jollivet (1753-1818), a prominent French politician. 412. Had'st thou believed,' etc. Zapolya, Prelude, Sc. 1. |