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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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mind stimulated,ones imagination fired, and to have newaspects of life and of art presented in anoriginal as well as brilliant manner.Mansfield makes his audiences think aswell as observe and enjoy. The occasional opposition he hasaroused is a tribute to his power ratherthan a proof of defeat. And the inequal-ities sometimes observed in his work aredue to his temperament. Such a manwould be, of course, a man of variedmood; and this variation of mood mightvary his interpretation of a certain char-acter. Who that has seen his marvelousimpersonation of Richard HI. has everseen him play it twice alike in everyminute detail ? Ten years ago there wasin Richard HI., from the weird, ghost-haunted sleep to the battle and death-scene, a cumulation of impressive actingwhich had seldom been paralleled uponour stage. The struggles of the valiant,despairing king were fierce and terrible.His yielding to the dread Conqueror wasslow and desperate. He grew weaker Digitized by Google Richard Mansfield.
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Photo, by Conly, Boston. A RARE PORTRAIT OP Mr. MANSFIELD, TAKEN FIFTEEN OR TWENTY YEAR8 AGO. and weaker, but his indomitable spiritupheld him. Finally he fell, but only torise once more and make a convulsiveeffort to lunge with his sword at an enemyunseen by his dimming sight but ever-present to his tortured conscience. Theclutching of the tree behind him for sup-port was remarkably vivid. Last spring when Mansfield presentedRichard III. after the interval of somany years, several important changeswere noticeable. The development ofGlosters character from youth to man-hood, from the impish, mirthless glee of themurderer of Henry to the sardonic, som-ber gloom of the solitary king on his un-certain throne was made intensely human, without a trace of inartistic sensationalappeal. In the tent-scene, followed bythe hysterical recognition of Catesby,the actor touched an altitude of tragicpower which was sublime. The death-scene was quite different from what ithad been ten years before. Th

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