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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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e horrible alone. Anappeal to the imaginationis required, suggestion rath-er than too much detail.Mansfield always dies im-pressively. The deaths ofBaron Chevrial and of Mr.Hyde partake indeed of thehorrible, but the just bal-ance between the fitting,the essential and the awe-inspiring seems to be main-tained. The death scenesof Beau Brummell, of Cyr-ano de Bergerac and ofBrutus are most powerfuland touching, and theyfurnish excellent examplesof Mansfields artistic meth-od—a method which takesaccount of the value of cumulative inter-est. There are no anti-climaxes in thismethod. This list of plays proves many things,the most obvious being, of course, thatRichard Mansfields versatility is un-matched on our contemporary stage.Many of these plays deal with tremendoustragic forces working amid tragic cir-cumstances towards an inevitable de-struction. They deal with grim horror,with colossal crime, with sorrow, andwith death. These tragic forces andsituations he treats with temperamental
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Mb. MANSFIELD AS THE CZAB IVAN INTERRIBLE, 1904. •IVAN THE Courtesy of Mr. Mansfield. sympathy and superb distinction. Hehas the imaginative grasp, the far-reach-ing vision of the true tragic poet. Butto say that Richard Mansfields powerlies in his being a great tragedian is buta statement of a half-truth. In sparkling,brilliant comedy, in the expression ofdelicate, poetic sentiment, in the displayof genial kindliness and heroic generosity,in the expression of the lighter phases ofsatire, in cynical wit, in rollicking humor,he is also masterly. He has his limitations, to be sure, forhe is but human. He has often shown Digitized by Google 14 Richard Mansfield. defects—mannerisms if you choose— thechivalrous devotion of his wise andbut during these twenty years that he has witty, self-effacing Cyrano; the baleful,been presenting new plays nearly every somber gloom of the suspicious, con-year and keeping before the public so science-haunted Ivan; the tragic splen-many of the old, w

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