On Acting
On Acting
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Siddons was the greatest of Lady Macbethsj with an incomparable skill in sounding the unseen depths of that tragic figure; but the essay she wrote on the subject is almost valueless.
Salvini was the greatest of Othellos, with a lofty largeness of imaginative interpretation; but his critical papers on the part do not display any special insight. Mrs. Siddons and Salvini were dowered with the special aptitude of acting, and they cultivated this gift 26 Digitized by Google ON ACTING loyally and di...ligently; but outside of their acting they were only ordinary mortals.
Probably this is what Lewes had in mind when he asserted that "people generally overrate a fine actor's genius, and underrate his trained skill. They are apt to credit him with a power of intellectual conception and poetic crea- tion to which he has really a very slight claim, and fail to recognize all the difficulties which his artistic training has enabled him to master.'' What the actor must have, if he is to rise high in his art, is not general intelligence but the special intelligence of his own art, the intuitive understanding of its possibilities and of its limitations, the clear insight into its principles and the power swiftly to apply them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Siddons was the greatest of Lady Macbethsj with an incomparable skill in sounding the unseen depths of that tragic figure; but the essay she wrote on the subject is almost valueless.
Salvini was the greatest of Othellos, with a lofty largeness of imaginative interpretation; but his critical papers on the part do not display any special insight. Mrs. Siddons and Salvini were dowered with the special aptitude of acting, and they cultivated this gift 26 Digitized by Google ON ACTING loyally and di...ligently; but outside of their acting they were only ordinary mortals.
Probably this is what Lewes had in mind when he asserted that "people generally overrate a fine actor's genius, and underrate his trained skill. They are apt to credit him with a power of intellectual conception and poetic crea- tion to which he has really a very slight claim, and fail to recognize all the difficulties which his artistic training has enabled him to master.'' What the actor must have, if he is to rise high in his art, is not general intelligence but the special intelligence of his own art, the intuitive understanding of its possibilities and of its limitations, the clear insight into its principles and the power swiftly to apply them.
What to read after On Acting?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 to read onlineMoreLess
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