 | George Vandenhoff - 1860 - 368 pàgines
...lustre like the silver moon Through her dark veil of rainy sorrow ! " So, his delivery of Othello's " Farewell " ran on the same tones and semitones, had...breaks, the same forte and piano, the same crescendo EDMUND KEAN. 23 and diminuendo, night after night, as if he spoke it from a musical score. And what... | |
 | Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton - 1900 - 374 pàgines
...chance-work ; much of it, most of it, was carefully premeditated and prepared His delivery of Othello's " Farewell " ran on the same tones and semitones, had the same rests and breaks, the same forte and fiano, the same crescendo and diminuendo, night after night, as if he spoke it from a musical score.... | |
 | Samuel Frederick Johnson - 1989 - 316 pàgines
...Kean" in a prompt copy of Richard III. George Vandenhoff remembered that "his delivery of Othello's 'Farewell' ran on the same tones and semitones, had...after night, as if he spoke it from a musical score." 8 A meticulous deviser of effects, Kean came finally to perform them by rote; it was this mechanical... | |
 | Donald Roy - 2003 - 592 pàgines
...pale lustre like the silver moon Through her dark veil of rainy sorrow! So. his delivery of Othello's 'Farewell' ran on the same tones and semitones. had...after night. as if he spoke it from a musical score [. . .] So. all his most striking attitudes.- and he was the most picturesque of players.all his most... | |
 | Jane Moody - 2007 - 300 pàgines
...notes of some divine music'.86 According to Vandenhoff, Kean ran 'on the same tones and semitones' with 'the same rests and breaks, the same forte and piano,...night after night, as if he spoke it from a musical score.'"7 The pace and emotional pitch of Othello's farewell suggest that 81 On Kean's dissolution... | |
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Farewell" ran on the same tones and semitones, had the same rests and breaks, the same forte and piano, the same crescendo and diminuendo, night after night, as if he spoke it from a musical score. 