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Shadows of the Stage

Shadows of the Stage

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SHADOWS OF THE
STAGE

BY

WILLIAM WINTER

"The best in this kind are but shadows"

Shakespeare

NEW YORK
MACMILLAN AND COMPANY
and London
1893


Copyright, 1892,
By MACMILLAN & CO.

Set up and electrotyped May, 1892. Large Paper Edition printed May. Ordinary Edition reprinted June, August, November, 1892; January, June, October, November, 1893.

Norwood Press:
J.S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.


TO

Henry Irving

IN MEMORY AND IN HONOUR
OF ALL THAT HE HAS DONE
TO DIGNIFY AND ADORN THE STAGE
AND TO ENNOBLE SOCIETY
THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED

"Cui laurus æternos honores
Delmatico peperit triumpho"

PREFACE.

The papers contained in this volume, chosen out of hundreds that the author has written on dramatic subjects, are assembled with the hope that they may be accepted, in their present form, as a part of the permanent record of our theatrical times. For at least thirty years it has been a considerable part of the constant occupation of the author to observe and to record the life of the contemporary stage. Since 1860 he has written intermittently in various periodicals, and since the summer of 1865 he has written continuously in the New York Tribune, upon actors and their art; and in that way he has accumulated a great mass of historical commentary upon the drama. In preparing this book he has been permitted to draw from his contributions to the Tribune, and also from his writings in Harper's Magazine and Weekly, in the London Theatre, and in Augustin Daly's Portfolio of Players. The choice of these papers has been determined partly by consideration of space and partly with the design of supplementing the author's earlier dramatic books, namely: Edwin Booth in Twelve Dramatic Characters; The Jeffersons; Henry Irving; The Stage Life of Mary Anderson; Brief Chronicles, containing eighty-six dramatic biographies; In Memory of McCullough; The Life of John Gilbert; The Life and Works of John Brougham; The Press and the Stage; The Actor and Other Speeches; and A Daughter of Comedy, being the life of Ada Rehan. The impulse of all those writings, and of the present volume, is commemorative. Let us save what we can.

"Sed omnes una manet nox,
Et calcanda semel via leti."

W.W.

April 18, 1892.


CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE
I. THE GOOD OLD TIMES 13
II. IRVING IN FAUST 30
III. ADELAIDE NEILSON 47
IV. EDWIN BOOTH 63
V. MARY ANDERSON 90
VI. OLIVIA 119
VII. ON JEFFERSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 130
VIII. ON JEFFERSON'S ACTING 151
IX. JEFFERSON AND FLORENCE 159
X. ON THE DEATH OF FLORENCE 169
XI. SHYLOCK AND PORTIA 178
XII. JOHN McCULLOUGH 185
XIII. CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN 206
XIV. LAWRENCE BARRETT 215
XV. IRVING IN RAVENSWOOD 226
XVI. MERRY WIVES AND FALSTAFF 243
XVII. ADA REHAN 258
XVIII. TENNYSON'S FORESTERS

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