Irving as Hamlet (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Irving as Hamlet Among the commonest examples of that cant of criticism which Sterne found so offensive, is the assertion that Shakspeare is for the closet rather than the stage. If a dramatic reporter has no other exordium ready, he always begins with that. If, incapable of giving an idea of the performance he should describe, he desires to convey to his readers an impression of himself as a "superior person, " he adheres throughout his article to the notion that Shakspeare is unactable, or at least is better understood when only read, and probably imposes upon many. For a, lazy age, going to the theatre is too tiresome, for a gaudy and frivolous generation anything better than opera bouffe is too slow. It is an easy escape to say that there is no acting now-a-days, and that if there were it would be wasted on a dramatist too grand to be acted. But this is never said or believed by those who have studied Shakspeare both in the library and in the theatre. And least of a all can it be said or believed of "Hamlet." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.