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Princess's Theatre. [Review]
CREATED/PUBLISHED
London, England: Times?, after July 3, 1857
NOTES
Review of Elizabeth Murray Kate Terry (1844-1924) in The Tempest as a juvenile Ariel. Dodgson was in the audience. He noted in his diary for July 3, 1857: "In the evening we visited the Princess', the pieces were A Game of Romps and The Tempest. The scenic effects in The Tempest certainly surpass anything I ever saw there or elsewhere. The most marvellous was the shipwreck in the first scene, where (to all appearance), a real ship is heaving about on huge waves, and is finally wrecked under a cliff that reaches up to the roof. The machinery that works this must be something wonderful: the scene quite brought back to my mind the storms I saw at Whitby last year, and the vessels plunging through the harbour-mouth. Kean was good: Caliban (Ryder) a very well-conceived monster, almost grotesquely hideous. Trinculo and Stephano (Harley and Matthews) were very amusing: but the gem of the piece was the exquisitely graceful and beautiful Ariel, acted by Miss Kate Terry. Her appearance as a sea-nymph was one of the most beautiful living pictures I ever saw, but this, and every other one in my recollection (except Queen Katherine's dream), were all outdone by the concluding scene, where Ariel is left alone, hovering over the wide ocean, watching the retreating ship. It is an innovation on Shakespeare, but a worthy one, and the conception of a true poet. Miss Carlotta Leclerque made a charming Miranda. The singing was also good, chiefly by Miss Poole.
SUBJECT
Newspapers
Reviews
Times (London, England)
MEDIUM
Newspaper clipping
LANGUAGE
English
PART OF
Lewis Carroll Scrapbook at the Library of Congress, page 10
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
DIGITAL ID
lchtml 001001
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lchtml.001001
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