TENNYSON'S QUEEN MARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 261, 2 October 1875, Page 4

TENNYSON'S QUEEN MARY.

"■••"'7yhVjsqarlt«rly JRepiew says: — "We incline to thick it is the best specimen of the literary drama which has been 7 wristenjn ©or time. It is at least, ■- admirable in form. It is better thaa Mr BrcwDiog\_ dramatic studies, which -batve tio form at all. It is better than ' Ther Spanish Gipsy,' which has a hybrid form. It is better than 'Bothwell,' as it bas more backbone, and less ■ Jot thd -enormous voiame of verbosity, ' Which^ we think, would always prevent

Hr Swinburne frfca «t*__j&fr_ng saacosa its, frtframetist. 6^ihedrkmatiai>lri. t in $h - Sh«keßp9rfi»a s&Bsejtfie yH&rjfc we have s*wt, ties no&tftf* fe 'atvtt &*% .personal interest ffhiofe a^fet recsll the gen iuf of nftticmal tcti«t,^d. etctte the ardoair of pitriotfem, of !&» representation on |he fff^e <k great historic examples. It ig gailty, too, of the bluoder, at once historical and dramatic oC raakiag - a heroine out of Bloody •* -Afary. Of course it will be acted; Tib and Joan will appear in miraoalousiy accurate costumes of the period; Ajldgate will be very 'richly decorated,' .and .we. shall bis' delighted with the exact representation of Lambeth Palace and St. Mary*s Churcbjrand a popular, actrdsi will l doubtless draw tears from sympatfi;olid ey^s 4 wheo ehe ■ exolatms that^&e has slain her Phillip!' It will bo acted, and then, like ail plays thai want the soul of action, it will disappear from the stage. Brffc as an intellectual exercise, as a scientific, study of abstract motives, as a stimulant of those subtle ideas whicf? the luxurious ir modern imagination delights to sub-* 1 siitute for action, as a monument of i ingenious and refined expression, in all these points Mr Teanyson's drama may long continue to afford pleasnre to the reader, A.nd more than this, at a time when the tradition of the poetical drama has been forgotten on the stase, it would perhaps be idle to expect."