Henry Irving, ein biografischer Sketch. Twould please the Doctor was dulped by the remark, Ah, verygood in der Tat, aber Sie hätten gehört, dass Irving es rezitieren soll. Es ist zu beachten, dass der Schauspieler in seiner frühen Jugend nur wenige Möglichkeiten hatte, Theaterstücke zu sehen. Er hatte noch nie ein^ntertaipment gesehen, aber das hektische Treiben einer Dorfmesse, wo es noch keine Punch and Judy Show gab, bis mehr als ein Jahr nachdem er in London Cameto lebte. Seine erste Erfahrung mit dem Theater war ein Besuch Sadlers Wells, als Mr. Phelps Hamlet spielte. Der Boynever hat diese Aufführung nie vergessen, und oft erzählt er seitdem von ihm

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Henry Irving, a biographical sketch . twould please the Doctor was dashed by the remark, Ah, verygood indeed, but you should have heard Irving recite it. It is worthy of note that the actor had, in his early youth, butvery few opportunities of seeing plays. He had never seen any^ntertaipment but the, bustle of a village fair, where there was noteven a Punch and Judy Show, till more than a year after he cameto live in London. His first experience of the theatre was a visitto Sadlers Wells, when Mr. Phelps played Hamlet. The boynever forgot this performance, and often since then he has told thefriends of his later life of the profound impression it made uponhis mind. Another recollection still more vivid is that of hisfirst visit to a theatre alone. He found his way to the Adelphi, and sat in the gallery with a feeling that he was very wicked, and that the gallery would probably fall into the pit for hisspecial punishment. Presently somebody began to talk to him.His spirits revived, and he became so absorbed in the entertain-. IRVING AS CHARLES L 1838-56.] HIS FIRST FISITS TO THE THEATRE. 13 ment, which consisted of The Haunted Man, The EnchantedIsle/ and the farce of Slasher and Crasher, that he left thetheatre with reluctance at one in the morning, after six hoursenjoyment, and got home an hour later to find his father andmother in a state of terrible anxiety. All the time of his citylife he never went to the play till he had studied the piecewhich he was to see, and made an effort to arrange the actionfor himself. Much was to be learned at this time at SadlersWells, the only theatre that attracted Irving. In addition tothe study of books and in the Elocution Class, Irving alsoobtained what aid he could in the way of lessons from an actor.About the year 1854, he was fortunate enough to obtain theassistance of Mr. William Hoskins, a leading actor at SadlersWells, who was struck with the earnestness and the com-parative proficiency of the lad, and gave him assistance fa

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880
• bookpublishernewyo
• bookyear1884