This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... which lasted until April 20, 1912, when it was terminated, in Detroit. "JULIUS CAESAR."--MARCUS BRUTUS. On October 7, that year, at Toronto, Canada, Power gave the most important performance of his career, thus far, when he appeared as Marcus Brutus, in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," acting in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... which lasted until April 20, 1912, when it was terminated, in Detroit. "JULIUS CAESAR."--MARCUS BRUTUS. On October 7, that year, at Toronto, Canada, Power gave the most important performance of his career, thus far, when he appeared as Marcus Brutus, in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," acting in association with Mr. Frank Keenan as Cassius, and William Faversham as Marc Antony. Next to "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice," "Julius Caesar" has, in recent years, been the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, and there is no drama in the legitimate repertory which at a time of social discontent and seething unrest, such as the present indubitably is, would make an equally forcible appeal to general public sympathy, or, because of its clear exposition and fervent advocacy of popular rights, exert as strong an influence for the general good. Celebration of freedom and rebuke of violence were never more timely and welcome, and Faversham could not have chosen INCIDENTS OF "JULIUS CESAR" 137 more wisely than he did when he determined to revive this tragedy. "Julius Caesar," one of the most sublime works in the English language, disputes with "Richard the Second" and "King John" the title to preeminence in the quality of eloquence, and, among the tragedies, it comes next after "Othello," in the element of action. It thrills the imagination and it fires the mind with vital thoughts of liberty; it presents heroic pictures of an imposing, ancient civilization; it causes impressive pageants of actual Roman life to pass before the vision, in one long, glowing, symmetrical array of royal pomp, moving majestically onward to a melancholy but splendid close; and it enforces an abiding sense of that inevitable, terrible retribution which, in the inscrutable...
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Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. 192pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page plates. Very good. Spine ever-so-faintly sunned and spine lettering a bit rubbed, else internally fine and bright. Handsome first edition of this biography of the stage and screen star (1869-1931), he of that dynasty of confusing, identically-named Tyrone Powerses that date back to the Irish actor and comedian (1794-1841) of the same name and of this subject's film-heartthrob namesake son (1913-58), born the year after this biography was published. A volume in the "Lives of the Players" series.
