BOYS IN GIRLS' PARTS.
The most.singular and.striking opinion in Pro essor Walter Raleigh's new Life of bnakespeare is that romantic drama died in England \yher.i boys ceased to play women's parts. 'Wei_ all know- that the persons who created'' the.roles- of Juliet and Portia, of Imogen and :Opheha, wcTe smooth-cheeked boys, and that tho actress only made her a'ppearaticeVwithj Charles 11. and tho drama' of the Ite'stflration. ; ' Hitherto, says Ella Hepworth Dixon, we have, been inclined to pity Shakespeare and his. audience for having only squeaky-voiced lads to impersonate those marvellous and intensely feminine characters, but Professor Kalelgh thinks that noetic drama gained, rather than lost, by these boy actresses. He declares that the modern actress imports not Silly too much realism,'but a superabundance of her own personality into the Shakespearian part, and that the highlytrained [but more "conventional" hoy-actor could better convey the true inwardness of the poet's incomparable lines.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 3
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176BOYS IN GIRLS' PARTS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 3
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