Essays On the Drama

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161 there is a rapid succession of novelties. If we examine these documents more minutely^ we shall discover also that while the scene-painter and the upholsterer are now at least as important personages as the per- formers, then the main burden of the play lay on the actors' shoulders. Now the effect of repeating ac- credited dramas was to render the performer more skilful, to improve his manipulation of character, to concentrate his attention upon the details of his art.
To make up for the su
...perficial attractions of novelty he was compelled to give a higher finish to his habi- tual impersonations. Whatever may have been the demerits of theatrical monopoly, it possessed this in- estimable advantage to the actors. They played better individually and collectively. They were animated by a common spirit, and by an emulation not always un- generous. To sustain the character of the house was no unusual or unworthy ambition.
It appears to us moreover that the elder actors proposed to themselves a different and in some re- spects a higher standard of art than prevails among their present representatives.


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