Dickens and the Drama: Being an Account of Charles Dickens's Connection with the Stage and the Stage's Connection with HimChepman & Hall, 1910 - 351 páginas |
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Página 142 - Orsini lived; and long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find — he knew not what.
Página 3 - I wrote to Bartley, who was stage-manager, and told him how young I was, and exactly what I thought I could do; and that I believed I had a strong perception of character and oddity, and a natural power of reproducing in my own person what I observed in others. This was at the time when I was at Doctors' Commons as a shorthand writer for the proctors.
Página 186 - Who can listen," exclaimed Thackeray, "to objections regarding such a book as this? It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness.
Página 66 - Pray tell that besotted to let the opera sink into its native obscurity. I did it in a fit of d ble good nature long ago, for Hullah, who wrote some very pretty music to it. I just put down for everybody what everybody at the St. James's Theatre wanted to say and do, and that they could say and do best, and I have been most sincerely repentant ever since.
Página 24 - He never seemed to overlook anything ; but to note the very slightest point that conduced to the " going well " of the whole performance. With all this supervision, however, it was pleasant to remark the utter absence of dictatorialness or arrogation of superiority that distinguished his mode of ruling his troop : he...
Página 127 - But this was not all. Between that Tuesday and Friday an indecent assault had been committed on his book by a theatrical adapter named Stirling, who seized upon it without leave while yet only a third of it was written ; hacked, cut, and garbled its dialogue to the shape of one or two farcical actors ; invented for it a plot and an ending of his own, and produced it at the Adelphi...
Página 155 - The place through which he made his way at leisure, was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town, and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.
Página 2 - ... into a dark letterbox, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street — appeared in all the glory of print; on which occasion, by-the-bye, — how well I recollect it!
Página 24 - On this table rested a moderate-sized box ; its interior divided into convenient compartments for holding papers, letters, etc., and this interior was always the very pink of neatness and orderly arrangement. Occasionally he would leave his seat at the managerial table, and stand with his back to the foot-lights, in the very centre of the front of the stage, and view the whole effect of the rehearsed performance as it proceeded, observing the attitudes and positions of those engaged in the dialogue,...
Página 23 - Dickens ever present, superintending, directing, suggesting, with sleepless activity and vigilance : the essence of punctuality and methodical precision himself, he kept incessant watch that others should be unfailingly attentive and careful throughout Unlike most professional rehearsals, where waiting about, dawdling, and losing time, seem to be the order of the day, the rehearsals under Charles Dickens...